Markus Wallinger receives Award of Excellence for his PhD Thesis

Our former group member Markus Wallinger won the Award of Excellence by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research. This state prize is awarded annually to 40 outstanding dissertations completed at all Austrian universities and in all subjects. Markus, as one of only four researchers of TU Wien, received this prestigious award on December 5, 2024 for his dissertation "Exploring Graph-based Concepts for Balanced Information Density in Data Visualizations", supervised by Martin Nöllenburg. Markus is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Efficient Algorithms at TU Munich. Congratulations, Markus!