Best Paper Award and Honourable Mention at EuroVis 2025

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.

A second paper, “Optimizing Staircase Motifs in Biofabric Network Layouts​”, written by Sara Di Bartolomeo, Markus Wallinger, and Martin Nöllenburg received an Honourable Mention Award as one of the top-3 full papers. This paper explores exact optimization algorithms for highlighting certain subgraph motifs in the novel BioFabric network visualization style.

Congratulations to all the award recipients!

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