Group Members
Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim
Chairholder
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Areas of Research
Dr. Johannes Fuchs
Sabine Kuhr
Secretariat
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Postdocs and Affiliate Researchers
Dr. Maximilian T. Fischer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Areas of Research
Social Media
Dr. Frederik L. Dennig
Lecturer
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Areas of Research
Dr. Daniel Seebacher
Subsequent GmbH
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Dr. Manuel Stein
Subsequent GmbH
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Research Associates / PhD Students
Raphael Buchmüller
PhD Student
Lucas Joos
PhD Student
Julius Rauscher
PhD Student
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Social Media
System Administration
Giovanna Ratini
Giovanna Ratini
Jakob Bienen
HiWi
Jakob Bienen
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Felix Dobler
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Felix Dobler
HiWi
Jakob Nau
HiWi
Jakob Nau
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Nils Widmann
HiWi
Nils Widmann
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Vanessa Ziegler
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Vanessa Ziegler
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Visiting Researchers / Guests
Neus Fontanet Garcia
Visiting PhD student (Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) - 2025
doc. RNDr. Jakub Lokoč, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) - 2023
Noëlle T. Rakotondravony
Visiting PhD Student (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA) - 2023
Graduates
Dr. Rita Sevastjanova
Interactive Visual Investigation of Word Embedding
Dr. Fabian Sperrle-Roth
Co-Adaptive Guidance in Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics
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Dr. Udo Schlegel
Visual Explainable AI for Time Series: The potential of attributions and counterfactuals.
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Dr. Frederik L. Dennig
Measure-Driven Visual Analytics of Categorical Data
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Areas of Research
Dr. Matthias Miller
Visual Sheet Music Analytics (2004)
Dr. Tilo Spinner
Low-Abstraction Explanations for Neural Network Architectures (2024)
Dr. Juri Buchmüller
Visual Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Data: Space-Efficient Movement Visualization (2024)
Dr. Maximilian T. Fischer
Visual Analytics for Communication Analysis (2023)
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Areas of Research
Social Media
Dr. Wolfgang Jentner
Visual Pattern Analytics for Event Sequences
Dr. Bruno Schneider
Visual Integration of Model and Data Spaces in Classification Problems
Prof. Dr. Menna El-Assady
Levels of Explainability for Human-AI Interaction in Visual Text Analytics
Dr. Eren Cakmak
Interactive Visual Analysis of Collective Behavior
Prof. Dr. Martin Schall
Multi-Dimensional Connectionist Classification: Segmentation-Free Handwriting Recognition
Dr. Daniel Seebacher
Visual Analytics of Spatial Events: Methods for the Interactive Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data Abstractions
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Dr. Matthias Kraus
Assessing the Applicability of Virtual Reality for Information Visualization
Dr. Dirk Streeb
Human Reasoning in Visualization and Visual Analytics
Dr. Michael Blumenschein
Pattern-Driven Design of Visualizations for High-Dimensional Data
Dr. Manuel Stein
Visual Analytics for Cooperative and Competitive Behavior in Team Sports
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Dr. Florian Stoffel
Transparency in Interactive Feature-based Machine Leaning: Challenges and Solutions (2018)
Dr. Dominik Sacha
Knowledge Generation in Visual Analytics: Integrating Human and Machine Intelligence for Exploration of Big Data (2017)
Dr. Dominik Jäckle
Projections for Visual Analysis of Multivariate Data: Methods for Identification, Interpretation, and Navigation of Patterns (2017)
Dr. Hansi Senaratne
Uncertainty-aware Visual Analytics for Spatio-temporal Data Exploration (2017)
Dr. Michael Behrisch
Visual Analytic Methods for Exploring Large Amounts of Relational Data with Matrix-based Representations (2017)
Dr. Fabian Fischer
Visual Analytics for Situational Awareness in Cyber Security (2016)
Dr. Johannes Fuchs
Glyph Design for Temporal and Multi-Dimensional Data: Design Considerations and Evaluation (2015)
Dr. Sebastian Mittelstädt
Methods for Effective Color Encoding and the Compensation of Contrast Effects (2015)
Dr. Halldór Janetzko
Enhancements for Visualizing Temporal and Geospatial Datasets (2015)
Dr. Svenja Simon
Visual Analysis of RNAseq Data : Discovering Genes in Bacteria (2015)
Dr.-Ing. Matthias Schäfer
Visual Analytics for Improving Exploration and Projection of Multi-DImensional Data (2014)
Dr. Milos Krstajic
Visual Analytics of Temporal Event Sequences in News Streams (2014)
Dr. Christian Rohrdantz
Visual Analytics of Change in Natural Language (2013)
Dr. Andreas Stoffel
Document Structure Analysis for Large Electronic Document Collections (2013)
Dr. Andrada Tatu
Visual Analytics of Patterns in High-Dimensional Spaces (2013)
Dr. Slava Kisilevich
Analysis of User Generated Spatio-Temporal Data: Learning from Collections of Geotagged Photos (2012)
Dr. Daniela Oelke
Visual Document Analysis: Towards a Semantic Analysis of Large Document Collections (2010)
Dr. Jörn Schneidewind
Visual Analysis of Network Traffic: Interactive Monitoring, Detection, and Interpretation of Security Threats (2008)
Dr. Jörn Schneidewind
Scalable Visual Analytics: Solutions and Techniques for Business Applications (2007)
Tobias Schreck Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Volksw. Dr.rer.nat. M.Sc.
Effective Retrieval and Visual Analysis in Multimedia Databases (2006)
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Bustos
Index Structures for Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases (2006)
Dr. Mike Sips
Pixel-based Visual Data Mining in Large Geo-Spatial Point Sets (2005)
Dr. Christian Panse
Visualizing Geo-Related Data Using Cartograms (2005)
Dr. habil. Alexander Hinneburg
Density-Based Clustering in large Databases using Projections and Visualizations (2002)
Alumni / Former Postdocs
Dr. Peter Bak
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2007-2010
Dr. Enrico Bertini
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Sara Di Bartolomeo
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2023-2024
Areas of Research
Dr. Evanthia Dimara
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2019-2020
Dr. Alexandra Diehl
Postdoctoral Researcher
Areas of Research
Social Media
Dr. Geoffrey Ellis
Postdoctoral Researcher
Areas of Research
Social Media
Dr. Hanna Hauptmann (Schäfer)
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2019-2021
Areas of Research
Social Media
Dr. Bum Chul Kwon
Postdoctoral Researcher
Areas of Research
Dr. Tom Polk
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2018-2022
Dr. Ivan Sipiran
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Leishi Zhang
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2010-2013
Former Members
Benedikt Bäumle
Student Assistant - System Administration
Thorsten Breitkreutz
Prof. Dr. Jianping Fan
Robert Gregor
Johannes Häußler
Dr. Roland Heilmann
Alexander Jäger
Michael Krauße
Philipp Meschenmoser
Matthew Sharinghousen
Systems and Network Administrator
Dr. Lin Shao
David Spretke
Franz Wanner