Rafael Weilharter received his BSc and MSc degree in Telematics from Graz University of Technology in 2014 and 2018, respectively. His Master's studies were focused on computer vision and autonomous robots.

Currently he is a PhD student at the Institute of Computer Vision and Graphics (ICG) at Graz University of Technology, where his studies concentrate on 3D reconstruction.

Since September 2018 he is working on the EU RESIST project financed under the HORIZON 2020 research framework programme.