Summer School Program

Dr Jonas Lantz is currently a researcher at the Division of Diagnostics and Specialist Medicine at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden where he is part of the Cardiovascular Imaging and Modeling research cluster. He earned his PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics in 2013 and has previously worked as an assistant professor at Linköping University. His research interests include cardiac flow simulations and measurements, medical imaging with CT and MRI and development of imaging biomarkers for cardiovascular risk assessment. In addition to his academic career, he has previously worked as a Flight Test Engineer with focus on flight dynamics on the Gripen Fighter aircraft at SAAB, and as a technical researcher at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ingrid Hotz is a professor in Scientific Visualization at Linköping University, Sweden. She received her M.S. degree in theoretical Physics from the LMU Munich, Germany and the PhD degree from the CS Department at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Since then she has spent some time at the University of California Davis, at the Zuse Institute in Berlin, and at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Currently she leads the Scientific Visualization Group at the division for Media and Information Technology at LiU. She is serving as Chair of the international workshop series for ‘Topological Methods in Visualization (TopoinVis)’ and is the coordinator of the Swedish e-sciences Research Center (SeRC) Visualization Community. Her research interest lies in the area of data analysis and scientific visualization, ranging from basic research questions to effective solutions to visualization problems in applications including flow analysis, engineering, physics, and medical applications. Her research builds on ideas and methods originating from different areas of computer sciences and mathematics, such as computer graphics, computer vision, dynamical systems, computational geometry, and combinatorial topology.

Daniel Baum is head of the research group Visual Data Analysis and deputy head of the department Visual and Data-centric Computing at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). He studied computer science at Humboldt University Berlin (HUB), Germany, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and received his MS degree from HUB. During his PhD at ZIB and Freie Universität Berlin, he worked in the fields of molecular visualization and similarity analysis. In his current work, he leads quite diverse projects, from neurobiology to meteorology to the virtual unfolding of ancient written documents, but his greatest passion lies in analyzing biological data. His research interests include visualization, image segmentation, feature extraction, feature tracking, as well as shape analysis.

Thomas Höllt is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Graphics and Visualization Group (CGV) at Delft University of Technology. Before that, he was Assistant Professor in the Leiden Computational Biology Center (LCBC) at the Leiden University Medical Center. He has been awarded the Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine in 2019 and the third prize in 2021 for his work on visual analytics approaches in (spatial) single-cell analysis. In 2023, he was awarded the VRVis Visual Computing award for sustainable development for his work on Cytosplore. His research interests include visualization and visual analytics for high-dimensional data, with a focus on biomedical applications, in particular, applications using -omics data.

Laura Garrison is a visualization researcher and biomedical illustrator currently affiliated with Bouvet ASA and the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre, Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway. She received her PhD in Visualization from the University of Bergen for her work on multiscale visualization of human physiology for discovery and communication. She is a recipient of the Karl-Heinz Höhne (MedVis) Award (2021) and the Dirk Bartz Prize this year. Prior to her PhD, she worked as an artist and content director in medical education technology start-ups in Chicago, Silicon Valley, and New York City. She is passionate about combining art, science, and technology to ask better questions and share stories about data, particularly for the life sciences.

Laura Garrison is a visualization researcher and biomedical illustrator currently affiliated with Bouvet ASA and the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre, Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway. She received her PhD in Visualization from the University of Bergen for her work on multiscale visualization of human physiology for discovery and communication. She is a recipient of the Karl-Heinz Höhne (MedVis) Award (2021) and the Dirk Bartz Prize this year. Prior to her PhD, she worked as an artist and content director in medical education technology start-ups in Chicago, Silicon Valley, and New York City. She is passionate about combining art, science, and technology to ask better questions and share stories about data, particularly for the life sciences.