Bernd Froehlich is a full professor with the Media Faculty at Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Germany. From 1997 to 2001 he held a position as senior scientist at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), where he was involved in scientific visualization research. From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a Research Associate with the Computer Graphics group at Stanford University. Bernd received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He has served as a program co-chair for the IEEE VR, 3DUI, IPT/EGVE and VRST conferences. He is also a co-initiator of the 3DUI symposium series and he is the 2008 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award winner. His research interests include real-time rendering, 2D and 3D input devices, 3D interaction techniques, display technology and support for tight collaboration in co-located and distributed virtual environments.