VISHUB - Key Persons


Aba-Sah Dadzie

Job Titles:
  • University Teacher

Alexis Pister

Job Titles:
  • Data Visualization Engineer
Alexis Pister, data visualization engineer working on visual analytics applications often applied to the humanities and using network, temporal, and spatial visualization techniques.

Armand Pons

Job Titles:
  • Research Intern, Université De Lyon ( 2019 )

Arran Ridley

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Benjamin Bach

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Benjamin Bach, Reader (Associate Professor) in Design Informatics and Visualization at the University of Edinburgh. His research designs and investigates interactive information visualization interfaces to help people explore, communicate, and understand data across media such as screens, mixed reality, paper, and physicalizations.

Bettina Nissen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Lecturer
Bettina Nissen, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Interaction Design and researcher in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. With a background in product and interaction design, digital fabrication and data physicalisation, her practice-based research focuses on engaging audiences with complex technological concepts and data through tangible means and makings. Research through Design, Designing with Data, Data Engagement, Data Physicalisation, Digital Fabrication.

Dave Murray-Rust

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Iain Carson

Job Titles:
  • Teacher

Jenny Long

Job Titles:
  • Student Researching Data Representation, With a Keen Focus on Challenging Societal Biases through Feminist Design Methodologies.
Jenny Long, PhD student researching data representation, with a keen focus on challenging societal biases through feminist design methodologies.

John Harper-Lee

Job Titles:
  • Research Student

Lucy Havens

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Graduated 2023 )

Mashael Hamad AlKadi

Job Titles:
  • Student Working on Learning Analytics.

Ran Chen

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Student

Rea Michalopoulou

Job Titles:
  • Student
Rea Michalopoulou, PhD student working on child and adolescent understanding of COVID-19 and its impact on mental health while designing a novel Virtual Reality (VR) assessment tool for mental health.

Renaud Blanch

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Researcher, Université Grenoble Alpes ( 2020 )

Ryan Bowler

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Graduated 2023 )

Sarah Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Student Researching Healthcare Data Communication to Patients and Their Families in the Hospital Setting Via 'Data Comics'
Sarah Dunn, PhD student researching healthcare data communication to patients and their families in the hospital setting via 'Data Comics'

Sarah Schöttler

Job Titles:
  • Student Working on Responsive Geographic Visualization.

Tobias Kauer

Job Titles:
  • Student Working on Discursive Data Visualization.

Tomas Vancisin

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate in Data Visualization at Peace
Tomas Vancisin, research associate in Data Visualization at PeaceRep (School of Law), focusing on visualization of transition trajectories, and the mediation space of peace and transition processes. His research interests include Visualization as part of Humanities Research, Visualization of Historical Cultural Collections, Provenance Visualization and Digital Humanities.

Uta Hinrichs

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
Uta Hinrichs, Reader (Associate Professor) in Data Visualisation and researcher at Design Informatics and the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh. Visualization as part of Humanities Research, Digital Humanities, Visualization of Cultural Collections, Data Physicalization, Visualization and Interaction Design Processes and Prototyping, Visualization Teaching & Learning, Qualitative Research Methods.