Log
A fairly complete record of my professional activities.
Moritz Stefaner
Data Visualization Designer, Consultant & Researcher — Truth & Beauty Operator
- 1977-03-16
- München (Munich), Germany
- Lilienthal, Germany
- Eickedorfer Damm 35, D-28865 Lilienthal, Germany
- moritz@stefaner.eu, moritz@truth-and-beauty.net
- truth-and-beauty.net
- linkedin.com/in/moritzstefaner
- scholar.google.de/citations?user=JkhZL8QAAAAJ
- endearcommons
Projects
| Year | Project | Description | Client | Collaborators | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2026 | Project: A Hidden Infrastructure | Description: Interactive 3D globe and long-form data narrative mapping Earth's underground mycorrhizal fungal networks at 1 km² resolution. | Client: SPUN (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) | Collaborators: SPUN research team (Toby Kiers et al.) | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2026 | Project: BikeNetKit | Description: Data-visualization project with the IT University of Copenhagen. | Client: IT University of Copenhagen | |||
| Year: 2025 | Project: State of Neuroscience | Description: Mapping ~350,000 neuroscience publications into a semantic concept landscape. | Client: The Transmitter (Simons Foundation) | Collaborators: The Transmitter, World Wide Neuro | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2022 | Project: Lilienthal Solargraphy | Description: Autographic, data-less solargraphy images recorded with pinhole cameras over six months. | On t-b.net: Page | |||
| Year: 2022 | Project: Swiss Re — 360° CRM visualization | Description: 360-degree CRM data visualization for Swiss Re. | Client: Swiss Re | Collaborators: Studio NAND | ||
| Year: 2022 | Project: Climate & Conflict Analysis | Description: Visual explanation of the relationship between climate change and violent conflict. | Client: German Federal Foreign Office (PREVIEW) | Collaborators: PIK Potsdam, UniBW | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2022–2026 | Project: Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index | Description: Mapping the overlap of climate and conflict risks; launched by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at BCSC 2024. | Client: German Federal Foreign Office (PREVIEW) | Collaborators: PIK Potsdam, UniBW | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2021–2023 | Project: WHO Data Design Language | Description: Data design language for data.who.int — building blocks for rich, accessible, equitable public-health data experiences. | Client: KORE, WHO | Collaborators: KORE, 9elements, Christian Laesser, Alice Thudt, Flavio Gortana | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2021–2022 | Project: Impfdashboard | Description: The official German COVID-19 vaccination dashboard; a mobile-first benchmark for governmental data communication. | Client: German Federal Ministry of Health | Collaborators: Studio NAND, Cosmonauts & Kings | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2020 | Project: Waves of Interest | Description: Google Search interest across U.S. election years. | Client: Google News Lab | Collaborators: Simon Rogers, Alberto Cairo, Destry Sibley, Philippe Rivière | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2020–2021 | Project: Einstein Designer / Deep Learning UX | Description: Generative, personalized design at scale: analysis, visualization and synthesis of design features. | Client: Salesforce | Collaborators: Sönke Rohde (lead) | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2020 | Project: The Language of Science | Description: Language shifts across 175 years (5,107 issues) of Scientific American. | Client: Scientific American | Collaborators: Jen Christiansen (art direction) | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2020 | Project: Salesforce — Design Genome & Slack Channel Synthesis | Description: Data-visualization design for Salesforce's Design Genome and Slack Channel Synthesis. | Client: Salesforce | |||
| Year: 2019 | Project: Perpetual Plastic | Description: A 14m/46ft data sculpture made from beach debris showing the fate of all plastic ever produced. | Collaborators: Liina Klauss, Skye Morét | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2019–2020 | Project: Covestro Dashboard | Description: Prototype on market trends intelligence for Covestro. | Client: Covestro | Collaborators: Studio NAND, Christian Au | ||
| Year: 2018–2019 | Project: GROW Soil Moisture Maps | Description: Soil-moisture models combining sensor and satellite data for agriculture and climate forecasting. | Client: GROW Observatory | Collaborators: FutureEverything | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2018 | Project: Under the Sun | Description: A 24-hour trip around the world following the sun's zenith. | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | ||
| Year: 2018 | Project: Multiplicity | Description: A collective photographic portrait of Paris using machine learning. | Client: 123data exhibition at Fondation EDF | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Year: 2017 | Project: Wahl 2Q17 | Description: Google Trends search interest in the German federal election 2017. | Client: Google News Lab | Collaborators: Dominikus Baur, Christian Laesser | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2017–2021 | Project: Peak Spotting | Description: Visual analytics and machine learning to manage passenger loads in the German rail network. | Client: Deutsche Bahn AG | Collaborators: Studio NAND, Christian Laesser | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2016 | Project: The Rhythm of Food | Description: Food seasonality from twelve years of Google search data. | Client: Google News Lab | Collaborators: Yuri Vishnevsky | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2016 | Project: EPFL Data Monolith | Description: Immersive data perspective on university life. | Client: EPFL Lausanne | Collaborators: Mediaproducción, Olga Subiros | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2016 | Project: brand eins infographics | Description: Information graphics for brand eins business magazine (incl. 'Digitalisierung'). | Client: brand eins | |||
| Year: 2016 | Project: -ach, -ingen, -zell | Description: Visual exploration of spatial patterns in German place-name endings. | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | ||
| Year: 2015 | Project: Open Systems Wall Display | Description: Real-time, large-scale visualization of network-security situations. | Client: Open Systems | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2015 | Project: Excellence Networks | Description: How successful research institutions collaborate; based on research with Bornmann, Mutz, de Moya Anegón. | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | ||
| Year: 2015 | Project: Max Planck Research magazine | Description: Double-spread data graphics explaining cutting-edge research. | Client: Max Planck Society | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2015 | Project: False Positive | Description: Surveillance-themed street intervention and data visualization. | Collaborators: Mark Shepard, Julian Oliver | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2015–2016 | Project: Project Ukko | Description: Seasonal wind-speed predictions for the wind-energy sector; the climate-services data-visualization strand of the EU EUPORIAS project, with FutureEverything as design lead. | Client: FutureEverything / Barcelona Supercomputing Center (EUPORIAS) | Collaborators: Dominikus Baur, Stefanie Posavec, Drew Hemment (FutureEverything, project director) | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2014 | Project: ON BROADWAY | Description: Interactive installation portraying life along the 13 miles of Broadway, Manhattan. | Collaborators: Lev Manovich, Dominikus Baur, Daniel Goddemeyer, Daniel Mehrdad | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2014 | Project: Visual Funding Portfolios | Description: Comparison of science-funding profiles of funders and institutions. | Client: uberresearch | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2014 | Project: OECD Regional Well-Being | Description: Well-being across 300+ regions worldwide. | Client: OECD | Collaborators: Dominikus Baur | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2014 | Project: OECD Data Portal | Description: Data visualization strategy and design for the OECD data portal. | Client: OECD | Collaborators: Raureif, 9elements | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2014 | Project: Selfiecity | Description: Interdisciplinary study of the selfie phenomenon; creative lead for design, visualization and analysis. | Collaborators: Lev Manovich, Dominikus Baur, Daniel Goddemeyer, Daniel Mehrdad | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2013 | Project: Wahlland | Description: A new kind of election map ('Electionland') for the 2013 German Bundestag elections. | Client: ZEIT Online | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2013 | Project: Where the wild bees are | Description: Bee-population change over 120 years. | Client: Scientific American | Collaborators: Jen Christiansen | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2013 | Project: Global trade flows | Description: Mid-term economic trends in global trade. | Client: Citibank | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Year: 2013 | Project: Stadtbilder | Description: Mapping the digital shape of cities. | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | ||
| Year: 2013 | Project: footbonaut | Description: Data visualization for the footbonaut, a robotic football training system. | Client: CGoal (footbonaut) | Collaborators: MING Labs (Christian Behrens) | ||
| Year: 2012 | Project: Max Planck Research Networks | Description: Multi-touch installation on Max Planck institutes' collaborations, at the Max Planck Science Gallery, Berlin. | Client: Max Planck Society | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2012 | Project: FIFA Development Globe | Description: Geometric globe presenting FIFA's worldwide development activities. | Client: FIFA | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2012 | Project: Müsli Ingredient Network | Description: Analysis of custom muesli mixtures. | Client: mymuesli.com | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Year: 2012 | Project: Remixing Rosling | Description: Gapminder-style remixes for an interview with Hans Rosling. | Client: Church of London | Collaborators: Google ‘Think Quarterly’ | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2012 | Project: emoto | Description: Emotional online response to London 2012 on Twitter: interactive visualization plus physical data sculpture. | Client: FutureEverything for the Cultural Olympiad | Collaborators: Drew Hemment, Studio NAND | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2012 | Project: RESONET | Description: Mapping the Twitter community around the resonate festival. | On t-b.net: Page | |||
| Year: 2012 | Project: Data Cuisine | Description: Food as a medium for data expression ('edible diagrams'); ongoing workshops since 2012. | Collaborators: prozessagenten | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2012 | Project: Mapping scientific excellence (excellencemapping.net) | Description: Web application to browse and explore which institutions publish the most excellent papers across science subject areas. With Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz, Félix de Moya Anegón. | External: Live | |||
| Year: 2011 | Project: Notabilia | Description: Visualizing the longest deletion discussions on Wikipedia. | Collaborators: Dario Taraborelli, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2011 | Project: revisit | Description: Real-time visualization of Twitter conversations around a topic. | On t-b.net: Page | |||
| Year: 2011–2016 | Project: WEF Global Risks Report & Transformation Maps | Description: Long-running information-graphics and data-visualization work for the WEF — the annual Global Risks Report (2015–2021), Transformation Maps, the Inclusive Growth Report and the Global Competitiveness Index. | Client: World Economic Forum | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Year: 2011 | Project: Skype UX maps | Description: User-experience and information maps developed for Skype. | Client: Skype | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Year: 2011 | Project: Max Planck Science Gallery | Description: Interactive network and trend visualizations for a Max Planck Society science gallery installation. | Client: Max Planck Society | |||
| Year: 2010–2014 | Project: OECD Better Life Index | Description: Comparing well-being beyond GDP; launched for the OECD's 50th anniversary and widely regarded as seminal. | Client: OECD | Collaborators: Raureif, Dominikus Baur | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live |
| Year: 2010 | Project: Map your moves | Description: 4,000+ moves by 1,700 New Yorkers from a WNYC survey. | Client: WNYC | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2009 | Project: Well-formed Eigenfactor | Description: Visualizing information flow between scientific journals; exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2009. | Collaborators: Martin Rosvall, Jevin West, Carl Bergstrom (Bergstrom Lab, University of Washington) | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2009 | Project: X by Y | Description: An information-aesthetic exploration of the Ars Electronica archives ('The Design of X by Y'). | Client: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for media.art.research | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2008 | Project: mæve | Description: Interactive tabletop installation connecting the EveryVille competition and MACE content; shown at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008. | Client: MACE project | Collaborators: Boris Müller, Till Nagel (lead) | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2008 | Project: Content Landscape | Description: Faceted browsing for knowledge management in the enterprise | Client: SVA BizSphere AG | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | |
| Year: 2008 | Project: Elastic timeline | Description: A fish-eye distorted timeline designed and developed for the Swiss news programme Tagesschau. | Client: Swiss Tagesschau (SRF) | Collaborators: ymc.ch | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2007–2009 | Project: MACE | Description: Pan-European initiative interconnecting digital information about architecture; UI and data visualization design (as research assistant at FH Potsdam). | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | ||
| Year: 2007 | Project: Elastic Lists | Description: Interface technique and demos for faceted browsing of multi-dimensional data. | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | ||
| Year: 2006–2011 | Project: Relation Browser | Description: Early interactive tool for exploring relationships between items; licensed to and adapted for clients including Sony, Talis, Siderean Software, Lijit Networks, NSPCC and Smartlogic. | On t-b.net: Page | External: Live | ||
| Year: 2005 | Project: feelSpace | Description: Study project developing a haptic compass worn as a belt, evaluating its long-term effects. Role: logo & website design, planning & organization, background research. | External: Live | |||
| Year: 2004 | Project: RAFT | Description: Interaction design and information architecture for the EU project RAFT; implemented a system prototype in Flash / FlashComm. | Client: Fraunhofer Institute, Sankt Augustin | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Year: 2003 | Project: Organic link network | Description: Moritz's first interactive visualization, built for an early version of his personal website; a focus-and-context navigation demo. | On t-b.net: Page | |||
| Year: 2001 | Project: Crystal Racer | Description: Promotional Flash action game for ZEUS insurance, produced at neteye: a 'Save the World' hoverboard platformer with prizes including a Vespa and a PlayStation 2. Moritz was production leader. | Client: ZEUS (insurance) | Collaborators: neteye°° GmbH (studio) | External: Live |
Awards
| Year | Award | Project | Place | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2021 | Award: Malofiej Award — Silver | Project: The Language of Science | Place: Pamplona, Spain | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2020 | Award: Fast Company Innovation by Design — Finalist (Data Design) & Honorable Mention (General Excellence) | Project: Einstein Designer | Place: New York | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2019 | Award: National Geographic Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge — Gold | Project: Perpetual Plastic | Place: Washington, DC | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2018 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (Unusual) | Project: Multiplicity | Place: New York | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2017 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (Sports, Games & Leisure) | Project: The Rhythm of Food | Place: London | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2017 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Bronze | Project: Peak Spotting | Place: London | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2016 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (Data Project) | Project: Data Cuisine | Place: London | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2016 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Silver | Project: Project Ukko | Place: London | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2016 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Outstanding Individual | Project: Special recognition | Place: London | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2015 | Award: Information is Beautiful Award — Silver (Dataviz Project) | Project: On Broadway | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (website) | Project: Selfiecity | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Award: Information is Beautiful Awards — Silver (website) | Project: OECD Regional Well-Being | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Award: Malofiej Award — Bronze | Project: Wahlland | Place: Pamplona, Spain | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2013 | Award: Information is Beautiful Award — Bronze (Data Visualization) | Project: emoto | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2012 | Award: Information is Beautiful Award — Best Interactive Visualisation | Project: Notabilia | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2010 | Award: Nominee, Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (German Federal Design Award) | On t-b.net: Page | |||
| Year: 2007 | Award: Fachhochschulpreis — Best Master's Thesis | Project: Visual Tools for the Socio-Semantic Web | Place: FH Potsdam | ||
| Year: 2003 | Award: Kornfeld Media Award — “Medien im Wandel der Zeit” (Winner) | ||||
| Year: 2001 | Award: “Golden Vector” Award — Best German website intro movie (Co-winner) | Project: Crystal Racer | Place: Berlin Beta | External: Link | |
| Year: 2001 | Award: FlashForward Film Festival — Finalist, Cartoon category (co-finalist; production leader) | Project: Crystal Racer | External: Link |
Exhibitions
| Year | Title | Venue / location | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2021 | Title: Selfiecity | Venue / location: Immer Ich. Faszination Selfie — Zeitgeschichtliches Forum (Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland), Leipzig, Germany | External: Link | |
| Year: 2019 | Title: Data Cuisine | Venue / location: Wissen in Bildern – Informationsdesign heute, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2019 | Title: The Rhythm of Food | Venue / location: Graphic Matters: Information Superpower, Breda, Netherlands | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2018 | Title: Distribution (Selfiecity / On Broadway) | Venue / location: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY | ||
| Year: 2018 | Title: Mapping the Archive (Prix Ars Electronica), MACE Classification Tree, Visual Funding Portfolios, The Rhythm of Food, Excellence Networks | Venue / location: Places & Spaces (travelling exhibition) | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2018 | Title: 123 data (Project Ukko, On Broadway, Selfiecity, Data Cuisine, Multiplicity) | Venue / location: Fondation EDF, Paris, France | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2017 | Title: On Broadway | Venue / location: Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea | ||
| Year: 2016 | Title: Project Ukko | Venue / location: FutureEverything, Manchester | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2016 | Title: Project Ukko | Venue / location: Information+, Vancouver | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Selfiecity (London edition) | Venue / location: Big Bang Data, Somerset House, London, UK | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Stadtbilder | Venue / location: Data Drift, Riga, Latvia | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2015 | Title: On Broadway | Venue / location: SUSAS 2015, Shanghai | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: On Broadway | Venue / location: Data Drift, Riga | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: On Broadway | Venue / location: Data in the 21st Century (V2_), Rotterdam | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: False Positive | Venue / location: Ars Electronica, Linz | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: False Positive | Venue / location: iMAL, Brussels | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: False Positive | Venue / location: Urbane Künste Ruhr, Hagen | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: False Positive | Venue / location: Media Lab Prado, Madrid | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: False Positive | Venue / location: FACT, Liverpool | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2014 | Title: Selfiecity (SelfieSãoPaulo) | Venue / location: SP_Urban Festival, São Paulo, Brazil | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Title: On Broadway | Venue / location: The Public Eye, New York Public Library, New York, USA | External: Link | |
| Year: 2013 | Title: Data Table (interactive exhibit) | Venue / location: Science centre exhibit (via Trillian), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | ||
| Year: 2012 | Title: emoto | Venue / location: GeoCity SmartCity, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China | External: Link | |
| Year: 2012 | Title: Max Planck Research Networks | Venue / location: Max Planck Science Gallery, Berlin, Germany | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2012 | Title: Notabilia | Venue / location: FutureEverything, Manchester, UK | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2009 | Title: Well-formed Eigenfactor | Venue / location: SIGGRAPH 2009 — Information Aesthetics Showcase, New Orleans, USA | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2009 | Title: Well-formed Eigenfactor | Venue / location: Powerdome (immersive projection environment), Potsdam, Germany | External: Link | |
| Year: 2008 | Title: mæve (MACE) | Venue / location: Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy | External: Link |
Talks & Keynotes
| Date | Title | Type | Event | Location | On t-b.net | Event link | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date: 2026-09-07 | Title: Beautiful insights — the art and science of data visualization | Type: Keynote | Event: WTIS-26 — 21st World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (ITU) | Location: Geneva, Switzerland | Event link: Event | ||
| Date: 2026-07-27 | Title: Truth & Beauty — Guest lecture on data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: Datenvisualisierung course (Prof. Marc Engenhart), IU Internationale Hochschule | Location: Online | |||
| Date: 2026 | Title: Crafting information experiences | Type: Internal talk | Event: ZEISS Meditec — Community of Practice | Location: online | |||
| Date: 2026 | Title: The Art and Science of Data Visualization | Type: Talk | Event: KSCN Vortragsreihe — SciCom Lab exhibition (Atelierhaus im Anscharpark) | Location: Kiel | |||
| Date: 2025-11 | Title: Beautiful Insights — The Art and Science of Data Communication | Type: Keynote | Event: VISCOMM workshop at IEEE VIS | Location: Vienna | On t-b.net: Page | Event link: Event | |
| Date: 2025 | Title: Kiel Life Science reception | Type: Talk | Event: Kiel Life Science (CAU Kiel) | Location: Kiel | |||
| Date: 2025 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Flying Tokyo (by Rhizomatiks / Daito Manabe, with Shirley Wu) | Location: Tokyo | Event link: Event | ||
| Date: 2025 | Title: University of Osnabrück — Alumni Conference | Type: Talk | Event: Alumni Conference | Location: Osnabrück | |||
| Date: 2025 | Title: The art and science of data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: University of Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2025 | Title: Öffentliches Gestalten #11 — 'Truth & Beauty for the German administration' | Type: Invited talk | Event: Öffentliches Gestalten meetup (CityLAB Berlin / DigitalService) | Location: Berlin | Recording: Recording | ||
| Date: 2025 | Title: The art and science of data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: Constructor University Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2025 | Title: Finding Truth & Beauty in Data | Type: Talk | Event: Guest lecture, Information Design course (Prof. Dominikus Baur), Hochschule München (HM) | Location: Munich | |||
| Date: 2024 | Title: Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index | Type: Talk | Event: Dataviz Meetup Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2024 | Title: Beautiful insights — the art and science of data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: Data Train, University of Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2024 | Title: Data Design Systems | Type: Talk | Event: Graphic Hunters | Location: online | |||
| Date: 2023 | Title: The art and science of data visualization | Type: Talk | Location: Kiel | ||||
| Date: 2023 | Title: Schöner Wissen | Type: Talk | Event: Datalounge | Location: Kiel | |||
| Date: 2023 | Title: Solutions conference — From spark to ember | Type: Talk | Event: Solutions conference | Location: Hamburg | |||
| Date: 2023 | Title: Creative AI | Type: Talk | Event: DSAG | Location: Bremen | Recording: Recording | ||
| Date: 2023 | Title: Dataviz A–Z | Type: Talk | Event: Dataviz Meetup Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2023 | Title: SWOTbot.ai — product demo | Type: Talk | Event: iPos E2E Round Table, Digital Hub Industry Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2022-06 | Title: The Art and Science of Data Visualization | Type: Keynote | Event: Eurovis | Location: Rome | On t-b.net: Page | Event link: Event | Recording: Recording |
| Date: 2022-02 | Title: Visual Rhetorics / Data Art for Climate Action | Type: Talk | Event: DACA 2022 | Location: online | On t-b.net: Page | Event link: Event | Recording: Recording |
| Date: 2022 | Title: Beyond the bar chart — how new data languages can make complexity graspable | Type: Talk | Event: Data Train, University of Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2022 | Title: Beyond the bar chart: how new data languages can make complexity graspable | Type: Talk | Event: Famous Friends (Data+Women & IIID) | Location: online | |||
| Date: 2022 | Title: Champions League of Data Viz | Type: Lecture | Event: Deloitte | Location: online | |||
| Date: 2022 | Title: The Dataviz Mindset | Type: Talk | Event: HfK Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2022 | Title: Visualizing the Invisible: Covid-19 Information Design | Type: Panel | Event: Center for Design, Northeastern University — Conversation Series | Location: online | |||
| Date: 2022 | Title: Beautiful Insights | Type: Talk | Event: GEOMAR Postdoc Lunch | Location: Kiel | |||
| Date: 2022 | Title: Data physicalization | Type: Invited talk | Event: Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2022 | Title: On Data And Design #20 — The Dataviz Mindset | Type: Talk | Event: On Data And Design (Superdot) | Location: online | Recording: Recording | ||
| Date: 2021-11 | Title: Behind the scenes: how we designed the official German COVID-19 vaccination dashboard | Type: Talk | Event: SHOW conference | Location: Utrecht | On t-b.net: Page | Recording: Recording | |
| Date: 2021 | Title: The dataviz mindset | Type: Talk | Event: Solutions | Location: Hamburg | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Date: 2021 | Title: What’s a dashboard, anyways? — Designing the German COVID-19 vaccination dashboard | Type: Talk | Event: KIKK Festival | Location: Namur | |||
| Date: 2021 | Title: CO-RE — ‘Statistics on the Table’, Haus der Statistik Berlin | Type: Talk | Event: CO-RE (Contextual Research) / UdK Berlin | Location: Berlin (remote) | |||
| Date: 2021 | Title: Finding Truth & Beauty in Data | Type: Talk | Event: Cosmonauts & Kings | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2021 | Title: Schöner Wissen — the art and science of data visualization | Type: Talk | Location: Muthesius Hochschule Kiel | ||||
| Date: 2020 | Title: It's a process | Type: Talk | Event: Datavis Lisboa | Location: Lisbon | On t-b.net: Page | Recording: Recording | |
| Date: 2020 | Title: Beautiful insights — data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: FH Potsdam | Location: Potsdam | |||
| Date: 2019-06 | Title: dataviz : ecologies | Type: Talk | Event: eyeo festival | Location: Minneapolis | On t-b.net: Page | Event link: Event | Recording: Recording |
| Date: 2019-03 | Title: The art and science of data visualization | Type: Keynote | Event: VIZBI | Location: Heidelberg | On t-b.net: Page | Event link: Event | Recording: Recording |
| Date: 2019 | Title: Advanced Ceramics Group, University of Bremen — Beautiful insights | Type: Talk | Event: Advanced Ceramics Group, University of Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2019 | Title: The Data Interface | Type: Talk | Event: FH Potsdam | Location: Potsdam | |||
| Date: 2019 | Title: Data Deluge | Type: Lecture | Event: HBK Braunschweig | Location: Braunschweig | |||
| Date: 2019 | Title: Staff session on storytelling & visualization trends | Type: Talk | Event: Unitaid (WHO) | Location: Geneva | |||
| Date: 2018-05 | Title: Macarons and Catacombs | Type: Keynote | Event: OpenVisConf | Location: Paris | On t-b.net: Page | Event link: Event | Recording: Recording |
| Date: 2018 | Title: MIMENIMA Summerschool — Beyond the Bar Chart | Type: Talk | Event: MIMENIMA Summerschool, University of Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2018 | Title: Peak Spotting — a case study | Type: Talk | Event: FH Potsdam Alumni Day | Location: Potsdam | |||
| Date: 2018 | Title: Crafting data experiences | Type: Talk | Event: Shenkar ISVIS 2018 | Location: Tel Aviv | Recording: Recording | ||
| Date: 2018 | Title: Big Data panel & data-viz talk | Type: Panel | Event: International Cultural Forum | Location: St. Petersburg | |||
| Date: 2018 | Title: DB Academy — Data Science for Managers | Type: Talk | Event: Deutsche Bahn Academy | Location: Frankfurt | |||
| Date: 2018 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Regionalkonferenz Logistik (Metropolregion Bremen) | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2017 | Title: Truth & Beauty — data visualization (general lecture) | Type: Talk | Event: Airbnb | Location: San Francisco | |||
| Date: 2017 | Title: Beyond the bar chart | Type: Talk | Event: World Usability Day (DB Systel, Frankfurt) | Location: Frankfurt | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Data Cuisine | Type: Talk | Event: eyeo festival | Location: Minneapolis | On t-b.net: Page | Recording: Recording | |
| Date: 2016 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: FutureEverything | Location: Manchester | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Information+ | Location: Vancouver | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Data-Driven Storytelling seminar | Type: Talk | Event: Schloss Dagstuhl | Location: Wadern | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Data visualization — UX workshop | Type: Talk | Event: SAP | Location: Walldorf | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Truth & Beauty — data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: SAP UX Day | Location: Walldorf | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Beyond the bar chart: data visualization off the beaten track | Type: Talk | Event: Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR), Northeastern University | Location: Boston | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Data visualization — Truth & Beauty academy | Type: Talk | Event: trivago Design Academy | Location: Düsseldorf | |||
| Date: 2016 | Title: Google (Big Picture team) — Beyond the bar chart | Type: Talk | Event: Google, hosted by Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viégas | Location: Cambridge, MA | |||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Data / Identity / Memory | Type: Talk | Event: FutureEverything | Location: Manchester | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Visualized | Location: New York | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Yeah, science. | Type: Talk | Event: resonate | Location: Belgrade | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Data Cuisine | Type: Talk | Event: KIKK Festival | Location: Namur | |||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Open Systems | Location: Zürich | |||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Keynote | Event: Qlik Visualize Your World 2015 (DACH) | Location: Mainz | Recording: Recording | ||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Selfiecity | Type: Talk | Event: art+bits festival (Medialab Katowice) | Location: Katowice | |||
| Date: 2015 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: University of Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2014-06 | Title: Beyond the bar chart | Type: Keynote | Event: Gurus of BI | Location: Oslo | On t-b.net: Page | Event link: Event | |
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited keynote | Type: Keynote | Event: DL2014 — The Search Is Over! (Exploring Cultural Collections with Visualization) | Location: London | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Data with a cause | Type: Panel | Event: IEEE VIS panel | Location: Paris | On t-b.net: Page | ||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Visualized | Location: New York | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Selfiecity | Type: Talk | Event: resonate | Location: Belgrade | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Data Visualization New York Meetup — Visualized special edition (with Cedric Kiefer) | Type: Talk | Event: Data Visualization New York Meetup | Location: New York | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Infographics Congres 2014 | Location: Zeist | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: CHI Belgium | Location: Belgium | Recording: Recording | ||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: re:publica | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) | Location: Barcelona | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: World Economic Forum | Location: Geneva | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: PhUSE SDE Basel (pharma data conference) | Location: Basel | |||
| Date: 2014 | Title: Beyond the bar chart | Type: Talk | Event: Fraunhofer MEVIS | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2013-07 | Title: Finding Truth & Beauty in Data | Type: Keynote | Event: European Communication Summit | Location: Brussels | On t-b.net: Page | Recording: Recording | |
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: eyeo festival | Location: Minneapolis | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: resonate | Location: Belgrade | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Visualized | Location: New York | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: 9. Münchner Typotag (tgm) | Location: Munich | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: DBVIS retreat, University of Konstanz | Location: Konstanz | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: The art and science of data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: University of Osnabrück | Location: Osnabrück | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Big Data Viz Symposium | Location: Copenhagen | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Tell-a-Viz (Bertelsmann Stiftung / GED Project) | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: World 2.0 conference (CPH:DOX) | Location: Copenhagen | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: EcoVIZ Tansley Working Group, Silwood Park (Imperial College) | Location: Ascot | |||
| Date: 2013 | Title: Innovation sessions | Type: Talk | Event: Capital One UK | Location: Nottingham | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: OMG — it’s all connected | Type: Talk | Event: eyeo festival | Location: Minneapolis | On t-b.net: Page | Recording: Recording | |
| Date: 2012 | Title: Weltbilder | Type: Talk | Event: FutureEverything | Location: Manchester | Recording: Recording | ||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Adventures in data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: Push Conference | Location: Munich | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: emoto: visualising the online response to London 2012 | Type: Talk | Event: Strata London | Location: London | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Intent & Impact — how data visualization can make a change | Type: Panel | Event: SXSW Interactive | Location: Austin | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Adventures in data visualization | Type: Talk | Event: Visualizing Knowledge (Tieto Näkyväksi) | Location: Helsinki | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Designer Q&A | Type: Q&A / mentoring | Event: Visualizing.org Q&A / Marathon | Location: online | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: OMG — it’s all connected | Type: Jury & talk | Event: Malofiej 20 | Location: Pamplona | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Truth & Beauty Operations | Type: Keynote | Event: ChALS ’12 (Chalmers) | Location: Gothenburg | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Mapping the real worlds | Type: Talk | Event: Nokia Location & Commerce / HERE | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: WHO | Location: Geneva | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Visual narratives: what’s the story? | Type: Talk | Event: Virtual Identity Kaminabend | Location: Munich | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Suniweb Conference (University of Gothenburg) | Location: Gothenburg | |||
| Date: 2012 | Title: Visualising the future of our planet: can we do better than heat maps? | Type: Invited talk | Event: MSR Cambridge workshop | Location: Cambridge | |||
| Date: 2011 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: eyeo festival | Location: Minneapolis | On t-b.net: Page | Recording: Recording | |
| Date: 2011 | Title: Data visualization and how it can change our worldviews | Type: Talk | Event: Alpha-ville Festival | Location: London | Event link: Event | ||
| Date: 2011 | Title: Notabilia: visualizing deletion discussions on Wikipedia | Type: Talk | Event: This Happened Hamburg | Location: Hamburg | |||
| Date: 2011 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Visualizing Marathon | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2011 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: EDIT 11 | Location: Røros | |||
| Date: 2011 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Visualizing Europe | Location: Brussels | |||
| Date: 2010 | Title: Lasst die Daten sprechen | Type: Talk | Event: decoded conference | Location: Munich | On t-b.net: Page | Recording: Recording | |
| Date: 2010 | Title: Invited talk | Type: Talk | Event: Colloquium, HfK Bremen | Location: Bremen | |||
| Date: 2010 | Title: Information aesthetics | Type: Talk | Event: Colloquium, TU Dresden | Location: Dresden | |||
| Date: 2010 | Title: Information aesthetics — and how to make a living with it | Type: Talk | Event: Gründungscluster, Kunsthochschule Kassel | Location: Kassel | |||
| Date: 2010 | Title: Internal talk | Type: Internal talk | Event: Tribal | Location: Hamburg | |||
| Date: 2010 | Title: Bootstrapping: use visualizations to create visualizations | Type: Talk | Event: VisualEyes | Location: Milano | |||
| Date: 2009 | Title: well-formed.eigenfactor | Type: Talk | Event: SIGGRAPH 2009 — Information Aesthetics Showcase | Location: New Orleans | |||
| Date: 2009 | Title: Information aesthetics (workshop & talk) | Type: Talk | Event: HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | Location: Schwäbisch Gmünd | |||
| Date: 2009 | Title: The Scent of Information | Type: Talk | Event: LBI Linz | Location: Linz | |||
| Date: 2008 | Title: 5 Jahre Interface Design | Type: Panel | Event: FH Potsdam | Location: Potsdam | |||
| Date: 2008 | Title: Visual tools for the socio-semantic web | Type: Talk | Event: Salon Linz (LBI media.art.research) | Location: Linz | |||
| Date: 2008 | Title: Visual tools for the socio-semantic web | Type: Talk | Event: VizThink ’08 | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2008 | Title: Information Design — Intelligente Visualisierungen in interaktiven Medien | Type: Talk | Event: xtopia (Microsoft Germany) | Location: Berlin | |||
| Date: 2007 | Title: Interface Design presentation | Type: Talk | Event: Innovationsforum, FH Potsdam | Location: Potsdam |
Teaching & Workshops
| Year | Title | Format | Institution | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2024 | Title: Data visualization workshop | Format: Workshop | Institution: HNEE Eberswalde | ||
| Year: 2022 | Title: HfK Bremen | Format: Workshop | Institution: HfK Bremen | ||
| Year: 2021 | Title: Transition Design | Format: Workshop | Institution: Quasar Institute, Rome, Italy | ||
| Year: 2021 | Title: Quasar Institute, Rome — Transition Design | Format: Workshop | Institution: Quasar Institute | ||
| Year: 2019 | Title: Beyond heatmaps — Data visualization for a warming planet | Format: Block/semester course | Institution: HfK Bremen (Digital Media program), Bremen, Germany | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2019 | Title: HfK Bremen — Beyond Heatmaps (block/semester course) | Format: Course | Institution: HfK Bremen | ||
| Year: 2019 | Title: Dataviz course | Format: Course | |||
| Year: 2019 | Title: FH Potsdam — Data UI | Format: Course | Institution: FH Potsdam | ||
| Year: 2019 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Paris | Format: Workshop | Institution: Paris (ArTeC) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2018 | Title: Truth & Beauty for Science! / Beautiful insights — data visualization for scientists | Format: Training | Institution: Graphic Hunters, Utrecht, Netherlands | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2018 | Title: Everything except the chart — web-based data visualization | Format: Workshop | Institution: IEEE VIS conference | ||
| Year: 2018 | Title: IEEE VIS tutorial — Everything except the chart | Format: Tutorial | Institution: IEEE VIS | ||
| Year: 2018 | Title: Graphic Hunters, Utrecht — Truth & Beauty for Science! | Format: Workshop | Institution: Graphic Hunters | ||
| Year: 2018 | Title: OECD workshop | Format: Workshop | Institution: OECD | ||
| Year: 2018 | Title: Deutsche Bahn Academy | Format: Workshop | Institution: Deutsche Bahn | ||
| Year: 2017 | Title: Deutsche Bahn | Format: Workshop | Institution: Deutsche Bahn | ||
| Year: 2017 | Title: Data visualization workshop for UX designers | Format: Internal workshop | Institution: DB Systel (Deutsche Bahn) | ||
| Year: 2017 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Pristina | Format: Workshop | Institution: Pristina, Kosovo | External: Link | |
| Year: 2016 | Title: Max Planck Society (MPG) | Format: Workshop | Institution: MPG | ||
| Year: 2016 | Title: OECD | Format: Workshop | Institution: OECD | ||
| Year: 2016 | Title: Data Objects — data physicalization workshop | Format: Workshop (with Boris Müller) | Institution: SAP | ||
| Year: 2016 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Boston | Format: Workshop | Institution: Boston, USA | External: Link | |
| Year: 2016 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Gembloux | Format: Workshop | Institution: Gembloux, Belgium (Smart Gastronomy Lab) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Introduction to Data Visualisation (NERC Advanced Training Short Course) | Format: Course | Institution: University of Oxford, Dept. of Continuing Education (with Oxford e-Research Centre & giCentre/City) | ||
| Year: 2015 | Title: Insect Smarts (resonate, Belgrade) | Format: Workshop | Institution: resonate | ||
| Year: 2015 | Title: MPI Leipzig | Format: Workshop | Institution: MPI Leipzig | ||
| Year: 2015 | Title: Introduction to Data Visualisation — NERC Advanced Training Short Course | Format: Course | Institution: University of Oxford (Dept. of Continuing Education) | ||
| Year: 2015 | Title: OECD | Format: Workshop | Institution: OECD | ||
| Year: 2015 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Leeuwarden | Format: Workshop | Institution: Leeuwarden, NL | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Data Cuisine Event Berlin (Schott Ceran) | Format: Workshop | Institution: Berlin | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Basel | Format: Workshop | Institution: Basel | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop & Flying Buffet Berlin | Format: Workshop | Institution: Berlin (MICT / OpenEye) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Visualization workshop | Format: Workshop | Institution: MPG LeadNet (Harnack Haus), Berlin | ||
| Year: 2014 | Title: HU Berlin | Format: Workshop | Institution: HU Berlin | ||
| Year: 2014 | Title: MPI Leipzig | Format: Workshop | Institution: MPI Leipzig | ||
| Year: 2014 | Title: resonate workshop (Belgrade) | Format: Workshop | Institution: resonate | ||
| Year: 2014 | Title: Push workshop | Format: Workshop | |||
| Year: 2014 | Title: IEEE VIS tutorial | Format: Tutorial | Institution: IEEE VIS | ||
| Year: 2014 | Title: University of Oxford — Introduction to Data Visualisation (CPD) | Format: Workshop | Institution: University of Oxford | ||
| Year: 2014 | Title: resonate, Belgrade — Truth & Beauty workshop (with Dominikus Baur) | Format: Workshop | Institution: resonate | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2014 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Barcelona | Format: Workshop | Institution: Barcelona | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Title: HU Berlin — Exzellenzcluster ‘Bild Wissen Gestaltung’ (data-viz workshop for scientists) | Format: Workshop | Institution: Exzellenzcluster Bild Wissen Gestaltung, Berlin | ||
| Year: 2013 | Title: Weltbilder | Format: Block seminar (4 ECTS) | Institution: HfK Bremen (Digital Media program), Bremen, Germany | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2013 | Title: HfK Bremen — Weltbilder (block seminar, 4 ECTS) | Format: Seminar | Institution: HfK Bremen | ||
| Year: 2013 | Title: Insect Smarts workshop (eyeo, Minneapolis) | Format: Workshop | Institution: eyeo | ||
| Year: 2013 | Title: BCCN / Bernstein Center workshop | Format: Workshop | Institution: Bernstein Center | ||
| Year: 2013 | Title: Big Data Viz Academy | Format: Workshop | Institution: Big Data Viz Academy | ||
| Year: 2013 | Title: CogSci-Datavis | Format: Workshop | |||
| Year: 2013 | Title: Visual sensemaking | Format: Workshop | Institution: Big Data Viz Academy, Copenhagen | ||
| Year: 2012 | Title: Insect Smarts (swarm intelligence) | Format: Workshop | Institution: eyeo (Minneapolis) and resonate (Belgrade) | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2012 | Title: Data Cuisine workshops (8+ since 2012) | Format: Workshop series | External: Link | ||
| Year: 2012 | Title: Data Cuisine Workshop Helsinki (Open Data Cooking) | Format: Workshop | Institution: Helsinki | External: Link | |
| Year: 2011 | Title: Informationsvisualisierung | Format: Full-semester course (4 ECTS) | Institution: HfK Bremen, Bremen, Germany | ||
| Year: 2011 | Title: HfK Bremen — Informationsvisualisierung (full-semester course, 4 ECTS) | Format: Course | Institution: HfK Bremen | ||
| Year: 2011 | Title: Informative aesthetics | Format: Workshop | Institution: Data visualisation workshop (HEAJ Namur) | ||
| Year: 2010 | Title: HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | Format: Workshop | Institution: HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | ||
| Year: 2010 | Title: Workshop for scientists — HU Berlin | Format: Workshop | Institution: HU Berlin | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: Workshop for scientists — University of Osnabrück | Format: Workshop | Institution: University of Osnabrück | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: Workshop for scientists — Bernstein Center Berlin | Format: Workshop | Institution: Bernstein Center | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: Workshop for designers — resonate | Format: Workshop | Institution: resonate | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: Workshop for designers — HfK Bremen | Format: Workshop | Institution: HfK Bremen | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: Workshop for designers — Haute École Albert Jacquard, Namur | Format: Workshop | Institution: Haute École Albert Jacquard | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: Workshop for designers — HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | Format: Workshop | Institution: HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: Trends in data visualization | Format: Workshop | Institution: Visual Voltage workshop, Berlin | ||
| Year: 2009 | Title: Information Aesthetics | Format: Workshops (design master program) | Institution: HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | ||
| Year: 2009 | Title: HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd — Information Aesthetics workshops | Format: Workshop | Institution: HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | ||
| Year: 2008 | Title: FH Potsdam — Mashups for MACE | Format: Workshop | Institution: FH Potsdam | ||
| Year: 2003 | Title: University of Osnabrück — Tutor, Logic & Philosophy of Mind (2003–2005) | Format: Tutoring | Institution: University of Osnabrück |
Academic Publications
| Year | Title | Authors | Venue | Cit. | On t-b.net | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2021 | Title: Mapping the impact of papers on various status groups in excellencemapping.net: a new release of the excellence mapping tool based on citation and reader scores | Authors: Bornmann, L., Mutz, R., Haunschild, R., de Moya-Anegón, F., de Almeida Madeira Clemente, M., Stefaner, M. | Venue: Scientometrics 126(11), 9305–9331 | 9 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2018 | Title: Narrative design patterns for data-driven storytelling | Authors: Bach, B., Stefaner, M., Boy, J., Drucker, S., Bartram, L., Wood, J., Ciuccarelli, P., Engelhardt, Y., Köppen, U., Tversky, B. | Venue: Data-Driven Storytelling, 107–133 | 144 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2018 | Title: Introducing design in the development of effective climate services | Authors: Christel, I., Hemment, D., Bojovic, D., Cucchietti, F., Calvo, L., Stefaner, M., Buontempo, C. | Venue: Climate Services 9, 111–121 | 99 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2016 | Title: Excellence networks in science: A web-based application based on Bayesian multilevel logistic regression (BMLR) for the identification of institutions collaborating successfully | Authors: Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | Venue: Journal of Informetrics 10(1), 312–327 | 33 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2016 | Title: Project Ukko: Seasonal Wind Speed Predictions at a Glance | Authors: Christel, I., Hemment, D., Stefaner, M., Buontempo, C., et al. | Venue: WindEurope Summit 2016 | 1 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide: The third release of excellencemapping.net | Authors: Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | Venue: COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 9(1), 65–72 | 41 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Who Publishes, Reads, and Cites Papers? An Analysis of Country Information | Authors: Haunschild, R., Stefaner, M., Bornmann, L. | Venue: ISSI | 7 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Title: Process and Progress: A Practitioner's Perspective on the How, What and Why of Data Visualization | Authors: Stefaner, M. | Venue: New Challenges for Data Design, 391–404, Springer | 2 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Title: Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias | Authors: McInerny, G. J., Chen, M., Freeman, R., Gavaghan, D., Meyer, M., Rowland, F., Spiegelhalter, D. J., Stefaner, M., Tessarolo, G., Hortal, J. | Venue: Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29(3), 148–157 | 183 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Title: Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide based on highly-cited papers: A visualisation of results from multi-level models | Authors: Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | Venue: Online Information Review 38(1), 43–58 | 125 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Title: What is the effect of country-specific characteristics on the research performance of scientific institutions? Using multi-level statistical models to rank and map universities and research-focused institutions worldwide | Authors: Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | Venue: Journal of Informetrics 8(3), 581–593 | 93 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2011 | Title: Notabilia — Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia | Authors: Stefaner, M., Taraborelli, D., Ciampaglia, G. L. | 9 citations | DOI: Link | ||
| Year: 2010 | Title: Supporting architecture education using the MACE system | Authors: Wolpers, M., Memmel, M., Stefaner, M. | Venue: International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning 2(1–2), 132–144 | 11 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2010 | Title: The Design of "X by Y": An Information-Aesthetic Exploration of the Ars Electronica Archives | Authors: Stefaner, M. | Venue: Beautiful Visualization (eds. Steele & Iliinsky), 205–225, O'Reilly | DOI: Link | ||
| Year: 2009 | Title: mæve — an interactive tabletop installation for exploring background information in exhibitions | Authors: Nagel, T., Pschetz, L., Stefaner, M., Halkia, M., Müller, B. | Venue: HCI International 2009, 483–491, Springer | 28 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2009 | Title: User Interface Design | Authors: Stefaner, M., Ferré, S., Perugini, S., Koren, J., Zhang, Y. | Venue: Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search: Theory, Practice, and Experience, 75–112, Springer | 22 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2009 | Title: well-formed.eigenfactor: visualizing information flow in science | Authors: Stefaner, M., Rosvall, M., Bergstrom, C. | Venue: SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks | 3 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2009 | Title: The Eigenfactor™ Metrics: How does the Journal of Biological Chemistry stack up? | Authors: West, J. D., Stefaner, M., Bergstrom, C. T. | Venue: ASBMB Today (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), April 2009, 20–21 | On t-b.net: Page | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2008 | Title: Elastic lists for facet browsing and resource analysis in the enterprise | Authors: Stefaner, M., Urban, T., Seefelder, M. | Venue: 19th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) | 35 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2008 | Title: MACE: Connecting and enriching repositories for architectural learning | Authors: Stefaner, M., Spigai, V., Dalla Vecchia, E., Condotta, M., Ternier, S., Wolpers, M., Apelt, S., Specht, M., Nagel, T., Duval, E. | Venue: Browsing Architecture: Metadata and Beyond, 22–49 | 9 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2007 | Title: MACE — enriching architectural learning objects for experience multiplication | Authors: Stefaner, M., Dalla Vecchia, E., Condotta, M., Wolpers, M., Specht, M., Apelt, S., Duval, E. | Venue: EC-TEL 2007, 322–336, Springer | 109 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2007 | Title: Elastic lists for facet browsers | Authors: Stefaner, M., Müller, B. | Venue: 18th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 217–221 | 52 citations | On t-b.net: Page | |
| Year: 2007 | Title: Visual Tools for the Socio-Semantic Web | Authors: Stefaner, M. | Venue: Master's thesis, Fachhochschule Potsdam | 36 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2005 | Title: Projection Techniques for Document Maps | Authors: Stefaner, M., Ludewig, P. | Venue: Bachelor's thesis, University of Osnabrück, Institute of Cognitive Science | 3 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2004 | Title: Design of an interface for technology-supported collaborative learning — the RAFT approach | Authors: Terrenghi, L., Specht, M., Stefaner, M. | Venue: Entertainment Computing — ICEC 2004 (M. Rauterberg, ed.), 3rd International Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Sept 1–3, 2004, 522–525 | 10 citations | DOI: Link | |
| Year: 2004 | Title: RAFT: a Role-Based Appliance for Collaborative Learning | Authors: Terrenghi, L., Specht, M., Stefaner, M. | Venue: 2AD: Second International Conference on Appliance Design, Bristol, UK, 2004 | |||
| Year: 2004 | Title: Design of an Interface for Technology-Supported Collaborative Learning — the RAFT Approach (poster) | Authors: Terrenghi, L., Specht, M., Stefaner, M. | Venue: 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2004), Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
Self-published Writing
| Year | Type | Title | Venue | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2017 | Type: Essay | Title: There be dragons: dataviz in the industry | Venue: Medium / Visualizing the Field | External: Read |
| Year: 2016 | Type: Essay | Title: Little boxes | Venue: Medium | External: Read |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Interview | Title: A Practitioner's Perspective on the How, What and Why of Data Visualization (interview with David Bihanic) | Venue: New Challenges for Data Design, Springer | External: Read |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Essay | Title: Worlds, not stories | Venue: Medium | External: Read |
| Year: 2010 | Type: Essay | Title: Propositional density in visualization | Venue: Medium | External: Read |
Podcast
Media & Press
| Year | Type | Title | Subject | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2026 | Type: Interview | Title: KreativBund Dossier — “Hightech-Zukunftsmärkte und die KKW: Neue Allianzen” | Subject: Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft × Hightech (Prognos AG interview) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Coverage | Title: ScienceDaily — Beneath our feet lies a fungal superhighway stretching 68 quadrillion miles | Subject: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Coverage | Title: Discover Wildlife (BBC Wildlife) — This underground web of fungi is so huge it could reach the sun 1 billion times | Subject: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Coverage | Title: The Guardian — Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds | Subject: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Coverage | Title: The New York Times — 68 Quadrillion Underground Miles of Fungi | Subject: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Coverage | Title: Scientific American — See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back | Subject: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Coverage | Title: National Geographic — Fungi take up more mass than people — see how they stretch across the Earth | Subject: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Coverage | Title: Science Friday (NPR) — Segment on the mycorrhizal fungi map | Subject: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2026 | Type: Podcast interview | Title: Explore Explain S6E8 (Andy Kirk) — with Enrico Bertini | Subject: Influences & career works | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2025 | Type: Text contribution | Title: INGRAPHICS — magazine contribution | Subject: Elon Musk autonomous-car predictions | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2025 | Type: Podcast interview | Title: PolicyViz Podcast #278 (Jon Schwabish) | Subject: Career, Data Stories, WHO | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2025 | Type: Coverage | Title: Bosch Lab blog — Learning about data visualization from Moritz Stefaner | Subject: Talk at Kiel Life Science reception | External: Link | |
| Year: 2023 | Type: Text contribution | Title: Design und Künstliche Intelligenz (book chapter) | Subject: Einstein Designer | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2022 | Type: Coverage | Title: Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary (OfferZen Origins) | Subject: Use of Svelte at Truth & Beauty | External: Link | |
| Year: 2021 | Type: Podcast interview | Title: The Data Wranglers — Data with a Purpose (Jeffrey Heer & Adam Wilson) | Subject: Impfdashboard, Peak Spotting, The Language of Science | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2021 | Type: Coverage | Title: Bloomberg — The rise of the pandemic dashboard | Subject: Impfdashboard | External: Link | |
| Year: 2020 | Type: Podcast interview | Title: HeadsOfData / d:u Podcast (German) | Subject: Independent practice & data visualization | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2020 | Type: Podcast interview | Title: Explore Explain (Andy Kirk) — interview | Subject: The Language of Science | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2020 | Type: Interview | Title: Zukunftsfragen (Goethe-Institut Italy) — interview | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2020 | Type: Coverage | Title: HAS Magazine (UNESCO-MOST) | Subject: Multiplicity | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2018 | Type: Interview | Title: Graphic Hunters — interview | Subject: Work & philosophy | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2018 | Type: Featured project | Title: Food & Drink Infographics (TASCHEN) | Subject: Müsli Ingredient Network | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2017 | Type: Coverage | Title: Fast Company — The Data Viz That's Helping Transform A $45 Billion Company | Subject: Peak Spotting / Deutsche Bahn | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2017 | Type: Interview | Title: Google News Lab — interview (Medium) | Subject: Wahl 2Q17 | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2016 | Type: Coverage | Title: BBC World Service — Can food help you understand numbers? | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2016 | Type: Coverage | Title: Deutsche Welle — New culinary trend: Data Cuisine | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2016 | Type: Interview | Title: Huck Magazine — The data visualisation artist playing with the future | Subject: Project Ukko | External: Link | |
| Year: 2016 | Type: Video | Title: Ars Electronica — False Positive (video) | Subject: False Positive | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Type: Coverage | Title: Landscape Architecture Frontiers | Subject: On Broadway | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2015 | Type: Coverage | Title: Spiegel Online — Genießen nach Zahlen | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Type: Coverage | Title: The Atlantic CityLab — Masterchefs of 'Data Cuisine' | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Type: Video | Title: AP Archive — Big Bang Data (video) | Subject: Selfiecity London | External: Link | |
| Year: 2015 | Type: Coverage | Title: SRF (Swiss national TV) — Lasst euch diese Daten auf der Zunge zergehen | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Text contribution | Title: New Challenges for Data Design (Springer) — full-chapter interview | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Text contribution | Title: Raw Data — Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks (Thames & Hudson) | Subject: OECD Better Life Index sketches | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Featured project | Title: Best American Infographics 2014 | Subject: Where the Wild Bees Are | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: NOVUM — feature | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: We Make Money Not Art — Data Cuisine, food as data expression | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: Forbes Online — How Tech And Science Are Influencing The Ways We Cook | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: The Atlantic CityLab — Turning Demographic Data Into Delicious Food | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: WIRED — These Weird Meals Are Actually Clever Data Visualizations | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: FastCo Design — The Edible Future of Infographics | Subject: Data Cuisine | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: Designboom — Data Cuisine visualizes information through food | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2014 | Type: Coverage | Title: FlowingData — Data Cuisine uses food as the medium | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2013 | Type: Coverage | Title: La Lettura — 10 people to watch in data visualization | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2013 | Type: Coverage | Title: WIRED — feature on city maps | Subject: Stadtbilder | External: Link | |
| Year: 2013 | Type: Interview | Title: Sandra Rendgen — “The city is alive” interview | Subject: Urban data & visualization | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link |
| Year: 2013 | Type: Interview | Title: iCharts — portrait of Moritz Stefaner and his work | External: Link | ||
| Year: 2013 | Type: Coverage | Title: WEAVE magazine — Stadtbilder cover (03/2013) | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2012 | Type: Coverage | Title: WIRED UK — Open Data Cooking Workshop encourages edible data visualisations | Subject: Data Cuisine | External: Link | |
| Year: 2012 | Type: Interview | Title: The Functional Art (Alberto Cairo) — long interview | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2012 | Type: Coverage | Title: The Register — 'Data visualization: Big Data's hot cousin' | External: Link | ||
| Year: 2011 | Type: Interview | Title: Substratum — interview | On t-b.net: Page | External: Link | |
| Year: 2011 | Type: Podcast interview | Title: Fell in Love with Data (Enrico Bertini) — interview on data visualization freelancing | External: Link | ||
| Year: 2011 | Type: Interview | Title: visualizing.org — Q&A with Moritz Stefaner | External: Link | ||
| Year: 2011 | Type: Coverage | Title: Bright magazine — feature | Subject: Notabilia | External: Link | |
| Year: 2010 | Type: Featured project | Title: Data Flow 2 (Gestalten) — featured project | Subject: well-formed.eigenfactor | External: Link | |
| Year: 2009 | Type: Featured project | Title: Generative Gestaltung (Hermann Schmidt) — featured project | Subject: well-formed.eigenfactor | External: Link | |
| Year: 2009 | Type: Featured project | Title: WIRED UK — Grand designers: The world's best design work | Subject: Honorary mention (visualization) | External: Link | |
| Year: 2008 | Type: Interview | Title: SEED magazine — text & interview (State of Science 2008) | External: Link |
Clients
45 entries
Airbnb · brand eins · BVL (Bundesvereinigung Logistik) · Church of London · Citibank · Converse · Covestro · Deloitte · Der Spiegel · Deutsche Bahn · dpa · EPFL · European Patent Office · FIFA · Fondation EDF · German Federal Foreign Office · German Federal Ministry of Health · Google News Initiative / News Lab · KomPart · Lijit Networks · Max Planck Society · Met Office · mymuesli · Nokia · NSPCC · OECD · Open Systems · Payback · Qlik · retail.ai (Schwarz Group) · Salesforce · Scientific American · Simons Foundation · Skype · Sony · SPUN · Swiss Re · Tableau · Talis · TASCHEN · trivago · United Nations Development Programme · WHO · World Economic Forum · ZEIT Online
Professional Service
| Period | Role |
|---|---|
| Period: 2024–2025 | Role: Co-organizer, Dataviz Meetup Bremen |
| Period: 2015–2024 | Role: Jury member, Information is Beautiful Awards |
| Period: 2012–2018 | Role: Advisory board member, Places & Spaces exhibition (Indiana University) |
| Period: 2011–2016 | Role: Evaluator, European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme |
| Period: 2012–2013 | Role: Advisor to the Prix Ars Electronica (Digital Communities) |
| Period: 2012 | Role: Jury member, Malofiej International Infographics Awards |
| Role: Reviewer for data visualization conferences and journals (incl. IEEE TVCG) |
Work Experience
| Period | Role | Organization | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period: 2006–2009 | Role: Research Assistant | Organization: University of Applied Sciences (FH) Potsdam, Interface Design | Location: Potsdam, Germany | Details: Central role designing user interfaces and data visualizations for the EU-funded research project MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe), including project management and communication within the consortium. |
| Period: 2004–2005 | Role: Student Research Assistant | Organization: Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück | Location: Osnabrück, Germany | Details: Participant in the ASADO research project (Analysis and Structuring of Aviation Documents), led by PD Dr. Petra Ludewig and PD Dr.-Ing. Helmar Gust, in cooperation with Airbus's knowledge-management and archival departments. |
| Period: 2005 | Role: Intern | Organization: Fraunhofer FIT (Institute for Applied Information Technology) | Location: Sankt Augustin, Germany | Details: Three-month internship; interaction design and information architecture for the EU project RAFT (Remotely Accessible Field Trips), including a Flash/FlashComm system prototype. |
| Period: 2003–2005 | Role: Tutor | Organization: Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück | Location: Osnabrück, Germany | Details: Tutor for courses including Logic / Foundations of Logic and Philosophy of Mind (Prof. Dr. Achim Stephan). |
| Period: 2000–2002 | Role: Head of Motion & Interaction Team (Motion Director) | Organization: neteye°° GmbH | Location: Hamburg, Germany | Details: Led the moving-image and interaction team; conception and creative direction for multimedia communication projects, with team leadership, planning, controlling and quality management. |
| Period: 1999–2000 | Role: Web Designer | Organization: newtecmedia | Location: Hamburg, Germany | Details: Web and multimedia design. |
| Period: 1996–1997 | Role: Zivildienst (alternative civil service) | Organization: Offene Behindertenarbeit, Protestant-Lutheran Deanery of Munich | Location: Munich, Germany | Details: Leisure and integration activities with people with intellectual disabilities. |
| Period: 2005–present | Role: Independent data visualization designer, consultant & researcher | Organization: Truth & Beauty (self-employed) | Location: Lilienthal, Germany | Details: Self-employed practice for data visualization, information design and interface design. |
Education
| Period | Qualification | Institution | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period: 2005–2007 | Qualification: Master of Arts (M.A.), Interface Design | Institution: University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Potsdam, Germany | Grade: 1.0 (sehr gut / with distinction) | Notes: Thesis: Visual Tools for the Socio-Semantic Web — Master's degree in Design, specialization Interface Design. Thesis graded 1.0 and awarded the Fachhochschulpreis 2007 for the best Master's thesis at FH Potsdam. |
| Period: 2002–2005 | Qualification: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Science | Institution: University of Osnabrück, Germany | Grade: 1.0, with distinction (mit Auszeichnung / hervorragend) | Notes: Thesis: Projection Techniques for Document Maps (supervised by PD Dr. Petra Ludewig) — Cognitive Science degree with major fields in Philosophy of Cognition/Mind, Neuroinformatics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. |
| Period: 1998–1999 | Qualification: Multimedia Producer Diploma | Institution: SAE (School of Audio Engineering / Institute), Hamburg, Germany | Grade: 2.3 | Notes: 12-month Multimedia Producer course (Oct 1998 – Oct 1999). |
| Period: 1996 | Qualification: Abitur (general higher-education entrance qualification) | Institution: Karl-von-Closen-Gymnasium, Eggenfelden-Gern, Germany | Grade: 1.5 | Notes: Secondary-school leaving certificate (Allgemeine Hochschulreife). |