Mathias Baumgartinger-Seiringer

Affiliations. Vienna, Austria. Computer Scientist. Academic.

My name is Mathias Baumgartinger-Seiringer. I am a creative developer that is passionate about craftsmanship surrounding software, games and other digital creations. Also, I am a firm believer in free and open source tools.

I study in the Computer Science Master Program at the University of Vienna (MSc). During my Bachelor’s I started working at BOKU Vienna where I have had the opportunity to work on various exciting projects.

Fun fact: My name is so long that it usually doesn’t fit on cards and in forms; you might find me as just Mathias Baumgartinger in many places. It is also my preferred way.

news

Nov 06, 2025	Finally, my updated personalized website is live! Built with Jekyll by extending the al-folio theme. It serves as my online “business-card” showcasing my profile: curriculum vitae personal blog projects and repositories research and publications Check it out at mathias.toothgap.at and stay tuned for updates!
Oct 15, 2025	As of today I am officially looking for new job opportunities in the field computer science, software development, data science and/or GIS. Contact me via email or LinkedIn if you have an interesting position to offer or want to collaborate on exciting projects!

latest posts

Aug 15, 2025	Extending Django Knox by secure refresh-tokens
Apr 22, 2025	Start der BioPV-Labs: Gemeinsam die Zukunft gestalten! \| BioPV
Nov 25, 2024	Engaging the local community: WIMBY workshops in Styria

selected publications

Concepts of Virtual Reality in GIS

Mathias Baumgartinger-Seiringer

May 2020

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Due to the rapid progress of virtual reality hardware, these technologies are no longer niche products. Together with the much easier access to open geodata, new possibilities for procedural visualizations have opened up, combining Virtual Reality and GIS (VRGIS) technologies. In this bachelor thesis a prototypical implementation of a modern VRGIS software is presented, including concepts for movement,orientation and visualization of data. Due to the programming with the game engine Godot, as well as OpenVR, the developed software is almost exclusively based on open-source solutions. As with classic GIS software, the focus is on landscape and spatial planning. VRGIS is intended to simplify the communication process. To understand the possible advantages, users and application areas of VRGIS, six expert interviews were conducted. The questions focused on the following areas: The workﬂow of the expert; potential tools/beneﬁts of VRGIS; Experiences in the ﬁeld of 3D/VR in GIS; experiences in the ﬁeld of open-source software and open-data; the importance of GIS to communicate research results. Together with a comprehensive literature research, this also revealed completely new areas such as historical landscape visualization, virtual tourism, or emergency training.
@thesis{thesis, author = {Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Mathias}, year = {2020}, month = may, pages = {}, title = {Concepts of Virtual Reality in GIS}, doi = {10.13140/RG.2.2.14160.74247}, }

Fencing Virtual Landscapes: Using GIS to Identify and Classify Fences and Hedges for More Accurate Landscape Visualizations

Karl Bittner, Mathias Baumgartinger, and Thomas Schauppenlehner

In , Jun 2025

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@inproceedings{inproceedings,
  author = {Bittner, Karl and Baumgartinger, Mathias and Schauppenlehner, Thomas},
  year = {2025},
  month = jun,
  pages = {},
  title = {Fencing Virtual Landscapes: Using GIS to Identify and Classify Fences and Hedges for More Accurate Landscape Visualizations},
  doi = {10.14627/537754054},
  journal = {Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture},
}

Real-Time VR Landscape Visualization for Wind Farm Repowering: A Case Study in Eastern Austrian World Heritage Sites

Karl Bittner, Mathias Baumgartinger, and Thomas Schauppenlehner

In , Jun 2024

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@inproceedings{inproceedingt,
  author = {Bittner, Karl and Baumgartinger, Mathias and Schauppenlehner, Thomas},
  year = {2024},
  month = jun,
  pages = {},
  title = {Real-Time VR Landscape Visualization for Wind Farm Repowering: A Case Study in Eastern Austrian World Heritage Sites},
  doi = {10.14627/537752033},
  journal = {Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture},
}