Two papers co-authored by our ESPRIT fellow Sara Di Bartolomeo received awards during the EuroVis 2025 conference, held June 2-6 in Luxembourg. The Best Paper Award went to the paper “NODKANT: Exploring Constructive Network Physicalization” written by Sara together with her co-authors Daniel Paar, Henry Ehlers, Velitchko Filipov, Christina Stoiber, Wolfgang Aigner, Hsiang-Yun Wu, and Renata Raidou. This paper explores how constructing physical models of graph data can improve people’s understanding of complex information.

Markus Wallinger, who did his PhD in the Algorithms and Complexity group in 2024, received the EuroVis PhD Award for his thesis “Exploring Graph-based Concepts for Balanced Information Density in Data Visualizations” last week during the EuroVis conference in Luxembourg. This year’s EuroVis PhD Award was awarded to three young researchers and recognizes outstanding dissertations in academic research and development on topics relevant to visualization. Markus’ thesis was supervised by Martin Nöllenburg and supported by the WWTF grant “Engineering Linear Ordering Algorithms for Optimizing Data Visualizations”. Markus is now a postdoctoral researcher at TU Munich. Congratulations!