Daniel Weiskopf

Daniel Weiskopf is a leading expert in scientific visualisation, information visualization and visual analytics. He is interested in visual analytics techniques for Co-Design, construction and multidimensional data that integrate spatial and non-spatial interactive visualisation, facilitate human-computer interaction and support immersive analytics for augmented and virtual reality.

Education and Degrees

• 2005 Habilitation, Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Stuttgart, Habilitation thesis: GPU-Based Interactive Visualization Techniques, Prof. Thomas Ertl
• 2001 Dr. rer. nat., Physics, University of Tübingen, Dissertation: Visualization of Four-Dimensional Spacetimes (summa cum laude), Prof. Hanns Ruder
• 1997 Dipl., Physics (summa cum laude), University of Tübingen
• 1993 – 1994 Studies abroad, San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 1991 – 1997 Studies in Physics, University of Tübingen

Professional Career

• 2007 – present Professor (W3) for Computer Science (“Visualization”), University of Stuttgart
• 2005 – 2007 Assistant Professor (TenureTrack), School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• 2001 – 2005 Research assistant(C1), Institute of Visualization and Interactive Sys-tems, University of Stuttgart
• 2000 – 2001 Research assistant, Institute of Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart
• 1998 – 2000 Research assistant, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Univer-sity of Tübingen