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Faculty

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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.
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Benjamin Bach, Reader (Associate Professor) in Design Informatics and Visualization at Inria Bordeaux, and 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.
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Dorsey Kaufmann, University Teacher (Assistant Professor) lecturing in Data Visualisation in Design Informatics and Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her multimedia artwork and studio design practice translate data into embodied experiences that can be seen, heard, and felt. Her research examines the use of visualisation as a creative medium to increase data literacy and shape human cognition, attitudes and behaviour in relation to the natural environment.
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Research and Design

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Tomas Vancisin, Data Visualization Engineer at Edinburgh Futures Institute and Research Associate in Data Visualization at Peace and Conflict Resolution Platform (PeaceRep). His research interests include Visualization, Digital Humanities, Visualization of Historical Cultural Collections, Provenance Visualization, and PeaceTech.
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Dushani Perera, research associate in the Grasping Data project, exploring ways to physicalize children's personal data. She is a qualitative researcher focusing on the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Social Sciences with a particular interest in Sustainability, Information Visualisation, and Data Physicalization domains.
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Sian Pillips, research assitant in UK Co-Benefit Atlas project, creating interactive web-based data visualisations. She holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Edinburgh and a master’s degree in Data Visualisation from the University of Warwick. Originally from Edinburgh, she is passionate about working with data to create designs that promote positive change in the world and encourage innovation and inclusivity.

PhD and Research Students

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Sarah Dunn, PhD student researching healthcare data communication to patients and their families in the hospital setting via 'Data Comics'
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Jenny Long, PhD student researching data representation, with a keen focus on challenging societal biases through feminist design methodologies.
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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.
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Jinrui Wang, PhD student working on visualization atlases as an emerging form of open data visualizations and effective design of public data representation.
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