Tim Meinhardt is a research scientist at the NVIDIA Dynamic Vision and Learning (DVL) group. His work focuses on video and scene understanding, specifically, multi-object tracking and video segmentation. In 2009, his academic journey started with a B.Sc in physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich. After spending a semester abroad at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and finishing his Bachelor in 2013, he worked in Berlin and Munich as a software engineer for web development and robotics. He returned to academia in 2014 for a M.Sc. in Computer Science at the LMU of Munich. For his master’s thesis, he joined the Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence (CVAI) chair at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laura Leal-Taixé and as a member of her TUM DVL group, he continued his research as a Ph.D. candidate until 2023.