Heidrun Schumann is a German computer scientist specializing in data visualization. She is a
professor emerita
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in the Institute for Computer Science of the
University of Rostock
The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...
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Education
Schumann completed her doctorate at the University of Rostock in 1981. Her dissertation, ''Automatische Wegfindung von Rohrleitungen'', was jointly supervised by Karl-Heinz Kutschke, Helmut Kiesewetter, , and K. Willnow.
In 1989, she received her post-doctoral degree (Habilitation).
Books
Schumann is a coauthor of the books ''Rastergraphik - Hardwareentwicklungen'' (in German, with Hansgeorg Meissner, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1991), ''Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden'' (in German, with Wolfgang Mueller, Springer, 2000), ''Visualization of Time-Oriented Data'' (with Wolfgang Aigner,
Silvia Miksch
Silvia Miksch is an Austrian computer scientist working in information visualization, particularly for time-oriented and medical data. She is head of the Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology at TU Wien.
Education and career
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, and Christian Tominski, Springer, 2011, 2nd edition 2023) and ''Interactive Visual Data Analysis'' (with Tominski, CRC Press, 2020).
Recognition
In 2014, Schumann was elected as a Fellow of the Eurographics Association.
In 2020, she was awarded with the Fraunhofer Medal. In the same year, she was also listed in the IEEE Visualization Academy by the
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines.
The IEEE ...
Visualization and Graphics Technical Community.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
University of Rostock alumni