Jörn Kohlhammer

Department Head at Fraunhofer IGD

Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area

About

Jörn Kohlhammer is head of the Competence Center for Information Visualization and Visual Analytics and honorary professor at TU Darmstadt. His center develops innovative visualization solutions for several industry sectors, including: - Visual Business Intelligence and Visual Business Analytics - Medical data analysis of electronic health records - Decision support in the public sector - Visualization for cyber-security Jörn is author of more than 60 publications in journals and books, and of monographs and conference papers. He is regular member of program committees for conferences like IEEE VAST and EuroVis, and acts as reviewers in many conferences and journals. His research interests include decision-centered information visualization based on semantics, and visual business analytics. Jörn is member of IEEE and the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), and represents Fraunhofer in the TDWI.

Experience

  • Honorary Professor at TU Darmstadt
    Apr 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 3 mos

    Honorary Professor for Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, especially in the area of Visual Analytics and User-Centered Design, supervising PhD theses of my IGD team on Visual Analytics, giving lectures and seminars.

  • Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany (Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany)
    • Head of Competence Center
      Oct 2004 - Present · 21 yrs 9 mos

      Leading the competence center for information visualization and visual analytics with a team of around 10 employees (mathematicians and computer scientists) plus students, innovation management, defining the applied research agenda, leading the dissemination and industrial exploitation of technologies with a strong focus on visual business analytics.

    • Senior Scientist
      Feb 2004 - Sep 2004 · 8 mos

      Research and development in decision-centered visualization, continuation of my work at Fraunhofer CRCG

  • Senior Researcher at Fraunhofer CRCG
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2003 · 4 yrs

    Research and development in the area of computer graphics, especially decision-centered visualization