Christian is a researcher at the Institute for Visual & Analytic Computing at the University of Rostock, Germany. He received his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) and habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) in 2006 and 2015, respectively. In 2021, he was awarded the title of Professor (apl. Prof.) of Human-Data Interaction. Christian's research is mainly in the area of visualization and visual analytics, with a special focus on interaction with visual data representations. He is particularly interested in effective and efficient methods and techniques for the visual and interactive exploration and analysis of complex data. Christian has published numerous papers on new visualization and interaction techniques for multivariate data, temporal data, geo-spatial data, and graph data. He has co-authored three books, including a book on the visualization of time-oriented data in 2011 (second edition in 2023), a book focusing on interaction for visualization in 2015, and a textbook on interactive visual data analysis in 2020. Christian has developed several visual analytics systems and tools and maintains the TimeViz Browser, an interactive catalog of visualization techniques for time-oriented data.
I provide advice for students on how to engage in student projects and theses in the "Student How To" guide. Reading it is highly recommended.
If you are interested in a project or thesis, take a look at the following topics, which give you a basic idea of what types of research can be done. It is strongly recommended that you have attended our lectures on data science, visualization, visual analytics, and/or human-data interaction before engaging in a project or thesis. Details will always be discussed to align interests and requirements.
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