Data Analysis &amp; Visualization

Dr. Johannes Fuchs

Academic Councilor

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-2879

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1111

Appointments by email on request.

SCIKON

Sabine Kuhr

Secretariat

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3064

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1109

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Postdocs and Affiliate Researchers

Dr. Maximilian T. Fischer

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3075

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1108

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Communication Analysis

(Temporal) Hypergraphs

Civil Security

Critical Infrastructure

Social Media

Dr. Frederik L. Dennig

Lecturer

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3486

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1107

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Inverse Projections

Dimensionality Reduction

Visual-Interactive Machine Learning

Social Media

Dr. Shaolun Ruan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1106

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Visual Analytics

Explainable AI

Dr. Daniel Seebacher

Subsequent GmbH - Lead Developer und Senior Data Analyst

Dr. Manuel Stein

Subsequent GmbH - Co-Founder und CEO

Research Associates / PhD Students

Daniela Blumberg

PhD Student

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3574

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1105

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Inverse Projections

Dimensionality Reduction

Layout Enrichment

Daniela Blumberg

PhD Student

Raphael Buchmüller

PhD Student

Areas of Research

Visual Analytics

Categorical Color Schemes

Computer Vision

Raphael Buchmüller

PhD Student

Alexander Frings

PhD Student

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3709

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1122

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Hypergraph Visualizations

Energy Infrastructure Analysis

Immersive Visualizations

Alexander Frings

PhD Student

Daniel Fürst

PhD Student

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-5481

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1103

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Legal Tech

Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Graph Neural Networks

Visual Musicology

Social Media

Daniel Fürst

PhD Student

Bastian Jäckl

PhD Student

Contact

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1123

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Interactive Video and Image Retrieval

Computer Vision

Multimedia

Bastian Jäckl

PhD Student

Lucas Joos

PhD Student

Lucas Joos

PhD Student

Yannick Metz

PhD Student

Github

Yannick Metz

PhD Student

Julius Rauscher

PhD Student

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-5935

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1102

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Multivariate Spatiotemporal Data Analysis

1-D Spatial Orderings

Social Media

Julius Rauscher

PhD Student

Manuel Schmidt

PhD Student

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3940

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1104

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Large Language Models

Explainable and Trustworthy AI

Computer Vision

Manuel Schmidt

PhD Student

Zuzana Vopálková

PhD Student

Contact

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1124

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Interactive Video and Image Retrieval

Computer Vision

Multimedia

Zuzana Vopálková

PhD Student

System Administration

Giovanna Ratini

Nandor Györffy

HiWi

Nandor Györffy

HiWi

Jakob Nau

HiWi

Jakob Nau

HiWi

Manuel Schott

HiWi

Manuel Schott

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. 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

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3486

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1107

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Inverse Projections

Dimensionality Reduction

Visual-Interactive Machine Learning

Social Media

Dr. Rita Sevastjanova

Interactive Visual Investigation of Word Embedding

Dr. Matthias Miller

Visual Sheet Music Analytics

Dr. Tilo Spinner

Low-Abstraction Explanations for Neural Network Architectures

Dr. Juri Buchmüller

Visual Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Data: Space-Efficient Movement Visualization

Dr. Maximilian T. Fischer

Visual Analytics for Communication Analysis

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-3075

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1108

Appointments by email on request.

Areas of Research

Communication Analysis

(Temporal) Hypergraphs

Civil Security

Critical Infrastructure

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. Mennatallah 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

Dr. Dominik Sacha

Knowledge Generation in Visual Analytics: Integrating Human and Machine Intelligence for Exploration of Big Data

Dr. Dominik Jäckle

Projections for Visual Analysis of Multivariate Data: Methods for Identification, Interpretation, and Navigation of Patterns

Dr. Hansi Senaratne

Uncertainty-aware Visual Analytics for Spatio-temporal Data Exploration

Dr. Michael Behrisch

Visual Analytic Methods for Exploring Large Amounts of Relational Data with Matrix-based Representations

Dr. Fabian Fischer

Visual Analytics for Situational Awareness in Cyber Security

XING

Dr. Johannes Fuchs

Glyph Design for Temporal and Multi-Dimensional Data: Design Considerations and Evaluation

Contact

Phone: +49 7531 88-2879

Fax: +49 7531 88-3268

Building ZT, Room 1111

Appointments by email on request.

SCIKON

Dr. Sebastian Mittelstädt

Methods for Effective Color Encoding and the Compensation of Contrast Effects

Dr. Halldór Janetzko

Enhancements for Visualizing Temporal and Geospatial Datasets

Dr. Svenja Simon

Visual Analysis of RNAseq Data: Discovering Genes in Bacteria

Dr.-Ing. Matthias Schäfer

Visual Analytics for Improving Exploration and Projection of Multi-DImensional Data

Dr. Milos Krstajic

Visual Analytics of Temporal Event Sequences in News Streams

Dr. Christian Rohrdantz

Visual Analytics of Change in Natural Language

Dr. Andreas Stoffel

Document Structure Analysis for Large Electronic Document Collections

Dr. Andrada Tatu

Visual Analytics of Patterns in High-Dimensional Spaces

Dr. Slava Kisilevich

Analysis of User Generated Spatio-Temporal Data: Learning from Collections of Geotagged Photos

Dr. Daniela Oelke

Visual Document Analysis: Towards a Semantic Analysis of Large Document Collections

Dr. Jörn Schneidewind

Visual Analysis of Network Traffic: Interactive Monitoring, Detection, and Interpretation of Security Threats

Dr. Jörn Schneidewind

Scalable Visual Analytics: Solutions and Techniques for Business Applications

Tobias Schreck Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Volksw. Dr.rer.nat. M.Sc.

Effective Retrieval and Visual Analysis in Multimedia Databases

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Bustos

Index Structures for Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases

Dr. Mike Sips

Pixel-based Visual Data Mining in Large Geo-Spatial Point Sets

Dr. Christian Panse

Visualizing Geo-Related Data Using Cartograms

Dr. habil. Alexander Hinneburg

Density-Based Clustering in large Databases using Projections and Visualizations

Alumni / Former Postdocs

Dr. Peter Bak

Postdoctoral Researcher - 2007-2010

Dr. Enrico Bertini

Postdoctoral Researcher

vis.social via Mastodon

Dr. Sara Di Bartolomeo

Postdoctoral Researcher - 2023-2024

Areas of Research

Graph Drawing

Virtual Reality

Generative Models

Dr. Alexandra Diehl

Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of Research

Visual Analytics Foundations and Theory

Social Media Analytics

Uncertainty Analysis

Volunteer Geographic Information

Earth Sciences

Social Media

Dr. Evanthia Dimara

Postdoctoral Researcher - 2019-2020

Dr. Geoffrey Ellis

Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of Research

Information Visualisation

Perception and Cognition

Human Computer Interaction

Visual Analytics

Social Media

Dr. Hanna Hauptmann (Schäfer)

Postdoctoral Researcher - 2019-2021

Areas of Research

Intelligent Systems for Healthy Nutrition

Explainable AI

Visual Musicology

Gameful Design

Social Media

Dr. Bum Chul Kwon

Postdoctoral Researcher

Areas of Research

Data Visualization

Visual Analytics

Human-AI Interaction

Artificial Intelligence

AI for Biology, Healthcare, Medicine, and Science

Social Media

Bluesky

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

Michael Krauße

Philipp Meschenmoser

Dr. Lin Shao

Matthew Sharinghousen

Systems and Network Administrator

David Spretke

Franz Wanner

Niklas Weiler