Contact: François Mazen <francois.mazen@kitware.com>
Director of Scientific Visualization, Kitware Europe, France
François Mazen is the Director for the Scientific Visualization team at Kitware Europe. Throughout his career, François has focused on developing software solutions for scientific communities from research to industry. This topic includes numerical simulation methods, performance, Artificial Intelligence and large software architectures. In 2008, François received his engineering degree at IFMA (French Institute for Advanced Mechanics) in Clermont-Ferrand, France, where he was nominated for TOP 10 students. The same year, he also received a Master of Science at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) where he specialized in Rigid Body. Before joining Kitware, his previous 13 years of experience included 4 years at Ansys as a Software Developer to customize the Ansys Workbench application for specific customer requirements. He also worked for more than 6 years at Siemens PLM as Project Leader and Software Architect, where he integrated Robot’s Path Planning Technology in large applications like Siemens NX, Dassault Catia and Tecnomatix Process Simulate. François is an open source enthusiast as he has been contributing to several open source softwares since 2007. Currently, he is an active member of the Debian Operating System development team. Since 2021 he has led Kitware’s European Scientific Visualization team, including team management, strategy, technical expertise, operational excellence and business development. His recent works include fostering usage in industry of in situ and in transit analysis with the ParaView Catalyst library.
Technical Scientist, Data Integration Technologies Unit, RIKEN R-CCS, Japan
Jorji Nonaka is a Technical Scientist at the Operations and Computer Technologies Division in RIKEN R-CCS, Japan. His current activities include operation and maintenance of the large data visualization and analysis environment for the supercomputer Fugaku. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from University of Brasilia, Brazil, and his Ph.D. degree in Informatics, in 2006, from Kyoto University, Japan, where he specialized in large data visualization. Before joining RIKEN R-CCS, he worked as a post-doc at Kyoto University by applying KVS (Kyoto Visualization System) for large data visualization. After that, he joined Knowledge Graphics Technology Inc, in Tokyo, Japan, and developed some parallel visualization processing modules for the AVS/Express PST (Parallel Support Toolkit). He also worked as a visiting adjunct professor at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, including research on visual analysis of high-resolution industrial X-ray images in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Visualization Consultant, Consivi KG, Austria
Thomas Theußl is with Consivi KG in Deutschlandsberg, Austria, which he founded in 2025, offering consulting, support, and development in scientific visualization. He received a Master of Science at Vienna University of Technology in 2000, worked as a Software Developer in Vienna, Austria, and as a Visualization Scientist at the Visualization Core Lab, KAUST, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include visualization techniques, mathematical foundations of visualization, and applications of visualization. He has published tutorials on ParaView and Avizo on YouTube.