Rate My Professor Peter Morse

Peter Morse is a multi-disciplinary researcher, media artist, filmmaker, and scientific computer visualization expert with a notable connection to Curtin University, where he earned his B.A. in Fine Arts in 1984. His academic background includes a B.Sc. in Physics from Murdoch University (incomplete, 1981), B.A. Honours (First Class) in Communication Studies from Murdoch University (1987), Ph.D. in Semiotics and Cultural Heritage from Murdoch University (1995), and Ph.D. in Data Visualization and Computational Geophysics from the University of Tasmania (2021). He currently holds the position of University Associate in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Tasmania and serves as Visualization Consultant at Curtin University HIVE in Western Australia. Morse's career emphasizes collaborations across science and art, leveraging advanced computational techniques for innovative visualizations.

His research specializations and academic interests focus on data visualization for immersive systems, human-computer interaction, planetary and geophysical data, cultural heritage applications, computational creativity, scientific visualization, inference, computational imaging, and immersive fulldome works. Key publications include "Interactive Visualization for Data Inference in the Geosciences" (2021), "Exploratory Volumetric Deep Earth Visualization by 2.5D Interactive Compositing" (2020), "Well-Posed Geoscientific Visualization Through Interactive Color Mapping" (2019), "Fulldome Content for DomeLab: What do you need to know?" (2015), "An interdisciplinary approach to constructing models of the lithosphere across the Australia-Antarctica conjugate margin" (2016), "Animated analysis of geoscientific datasets: An interactive graphical application" (2017), "Game engines, photogrammetry and deep learning for Antarctic heritage visualization: 2020 Work-in-progress" (2020), and "Bodies in Time - A Sociosemiotics of Funerary Monuments and Sculpture" (1994). With 37 citations on ResearchGate, his work has impacted geosciences and immersive media. Morse has received awards such as the Ozviz Art + Science Award (2018), MAGNA Award for Best Exhibition (Museums Australia, 2018), Peter Rasmussen Innovation Award (Sydney Film Festival, 2011), and Best Independent Rock Video (WARMIA Awards, 1989). Notable projects include directing the fulldome movie 'Dark' on dark matter, featured on New Scientist magazine cover, and pioneering Antarctic fulldome content.