Group Members

Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim

Chairholder

Sabine Kuhr

Secretariat

Postdocs and Affiliate Researchers

Dr. Maximilian T. Fischer

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr. Frederik L. Dennig

Lecturer

Dr. Daniel Seebacher

Subsequent GmbH

Dr. Manuel Stein

Subsequent GmbH

Research Associates / PhD Students

Julius Rauscher

PhD Student

System Administration

Giovanna Ratini

Jakob Bienen

HiWi

Felix Dobler

HiWi

Jakob Nau

HiWi

Nils Widmann

HiWi

Vanessa Ziegler

HiWi

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

Dr. Udo Schlegel

Visual Explainable AI for Time Series: The potential of attributions and counterfactuals.

Dr. Frederik L. Dennig

Measure-Driven Visual Analytics of Categorical Data

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)

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

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

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. Sara Di Bartolomeo

Postdoctoral Researcher - 2023-2024

Dr. Evanthia Dimara

Postdoctoral Researcher - 2019-2020

Dr. Alexandra Diehl

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Geoffrey Ellis

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Hanna Hauptmann (Schäfer)

Postdoctoral Researcher - 2019-2021

Dr. Bum Chul Kwon

Postdoctoral Researcher

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

Prof. Dr. Jianping Fan

Robert Gregor

Dr. Roland Heilmann

Alexander Jäger

Michael Krauße

Matthew Sharinghousen

Systems and Network Administrator

David Spretke

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