Dr. Erleben is Associate Professor at the department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. For more than a decade, Erleben has worked within the research field of physical simulations, during which he has taught several courses on rigid- and soft-body dynamics, game physics and numerical optimization, as well as co-authored the textbook Physics-Based Animation. Erleben obtained his Ph.D. in 2005, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.