People

Faculty

	Benjamin Bach, Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) 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. Google Scholar
	Bettina Nissen, Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) 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. Google Scholar
	Larissa Pschetz, interaction designer, researcher and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Research through design, Technology for social development, Internet of Things (IoT), Temporal design, Biodesign Google Scholar

Research and Teaching

	James Scott-Brown, Post-doctoral researcher on visual browing interfaces for document collections. Google Scholar
	Devanjan Bhattacharya is working with the PSRP and PeaceTech in School of Law, focussing on collaborative map visualisations for participation and mediation in peace processes, along with the School of Informatics and the School of Design.

PhD and Research Students

	Zezhong Wang, PhD student working on Methods for Creating and Teaching Data Comics. Personal website Google Scholar
	Tobias Kauer, PhD student working on Discursive Data Visualization. Personal website Google Scholar
	Mashael Hamad Alkadi, PhD student working on Learning Analytics.
	John Harper-Lee working on Biological Data Analysis. Google Scholar
	Ryan Bowler, informatics PhD student researching ways to understand and implement the complexities of human time within Human-Computer-Interactions.
	Lucy Havens, PhD Student on Retrieving Bias in Cultural Collections using Natural Language Processing and Visualization.
	Vebjørn Halvfjerdvik, Master by Research Student on Natural Language Processing and Visualization.
	Sarah Schoettler, PhD student working on non-map-based ways of visualizing geographic data. Personal website

Alumni

• Dave Murray-Rust, Faculty (2020)
• Renaud Blanch, Visiting Researcher, Université Grenoble Alpes (2020)
• Zhutian Chen, PhD Intern, Honkong University (2019)
• Jingtao Zhou, Research Intern, 2020
• Qiuyuan Ren, MRes student (2018)
• Liwenhan Xie, Research Intern, Peking University (2019)
• Armand Pons, Research Intern, Université de Lyon (2019)
• Punpikorn Rannanawirojkul, Research Intern, University of Edinburgh (2018)
• Shunming Wang, Research Intern, Peking University (2018)

Master Students

• 2019: Sarah Schoettler (MSc), Xinyu Du (MSc), Junxian Meng (MSc), Qinru Zhu (MSc), Yixin Liu (MA),
• 2018: Finn Ickler (MSc), Xudong Jiang (MSc), Ilyas Zholdasbayev (MSc), Yiwei Sun (MSc), Yan Wu (MSc), Iqbal Rosiadi (MSc),
• 2017: Edson Alcala (MSc), Parul Sharma (MSc), Ruobing Hao (MA), Xian Tang (MSc), Zezhong Wang (MSc).

BHons

James O’Donell, Charles Shraples, Hirsh Agarwal; Alexander Olson, Veronika Dimitrova;