Silvia Miksch is an Austrian computer scientist working in

information visualization Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating Graphics, graphic or visual Representation (arts), representations of a large amount of complex quantitative and qualitative data and i ...

, particularly for time-oriented and medical data. She is head of the Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology at

TU Wien TU Wien () is a public research university in Vienna, Austria. The university's teaching and research are focused on engineering, computer science, and natural sciences. It currently has about 28,100 students (29% women), eight faculties, and ...

Education and career

Miksch has a master's degree and Ph.D. from the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

, earned in 1987 and 1990 respectively. After postdoctoral research at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence and at

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, she became a faculty member at TU Wien in 1996. She became University Professor at

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in 2006, before moving back to TU Wien again in 2010 as the founding director of the Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology. She chaired the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI) from 1997 to 2006.

Books

Miksch is a coauthor of the books ''Visualization of Time-Oriented Data'' (with Wolfgang Aigner, Heidrun Schumann, and Christian Tominski, Springer, 2011) and ''Interactive Information Visualization to Explore and Query Electronic Health Records'' (Now Publishers, 2013). She is also the editor or co-editor of multiple

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Recognition

In 2020, Miksch was listed in the IEEE Visualization Academy by the

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Visualization and Graphics Technical Community.

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