Group Members
Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim
Chairholder
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Areas of Research
Sabine Kuhr
Secretariat
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Postdocs and Affiliate Researchers
Dr. Maximilian T. Fischer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Social Media
Dr. Frederik L. Dennig
Lecturer
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Dr. Daniel Seebacher
Subsequent GmbH
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Dr. Manuel Stein
Subsequent GmbH
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Research Associates / PhD Students
System Administration
Jakob Nau
HiWi
Jakob Nau
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
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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. Maximilian T. Fischer
Visual Analytics for Communication Analysis (2023)
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Social Media
Dr. Rita Sevastjanova
Interactive Visual Investigation of Word Embedding
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Dr. Daniel Seebacher
Visual Analytics of Spatial Events: Methods for the Interactive Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data Abstractions
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Dr. Manuel Stein
Visual Analytics for Cooperative and Competitive Behavior in Team Sports
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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. Enrico Bertini
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Peter Bak
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2007-2010
Dr. Sara Di Bartolomeo
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2023-2024
Areas of Research
Dr. Alexandra Diehl
Postdoctoral Researcher
Areas of Research
Social Media
Dr. Evanthia Dimara
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2019-2020
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
Johannes Häußler
Robert Gregor
Dr. Roland Heilmann
Alexander Jäger
Michael Krauße
Philipp Meschenmoser
Dr. Lin Shao
Matthew Sharinghousen
Systems and Network Administrator