Andrea is a principal researcher and joined Nvidia in 2022. Before, she worked for eight years at Weta Digital where she designed the material system attached to Weta’s proprietary physically-based renderer, Manuka, and spent several years in the automotive industry.

Her main research areas are appearance modelling and material prototyping as well as spectral image synthesis. Andrea holds a Master of Arts in Applied Media from University of Applied Arts, Vienna and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology.