Niklas Elmqvist, Ph.D.

Hi, I’m Niklas. 👋

I build human-data interaction tools for everyone.

I’m a Villum Investigator and a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark . My research is on the intersection of data visualization and human-computer interaction (HCI). I am the Director of the Center for Anytime Anywhere Analytics (CA³) (website coming soon), a research center on Augmented and Extended Reality (AR/XR) for data visualization funded by the Villum Foundation. Besides ubiquitous analytics, a research topic I founded, my research interests span accessible data visualization, human-AI/ML teaming, and visual analytics.

My research has been recognized by a U.S. NSF CAREER award, several best paper awards at conferences such as IEEE VIS and ACM CHI, and significant grant funding from federal and industrial sponsors. I take academic service seriously and have served as a papers co-chair for IEEE VIS three times, an associate editor for journals such as IEEE TVCG, IJHCS, Information Visualization, and JoVI, and chair of the ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award subcommittee.

I’m an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Senior Member.

Positions available

I am always hiring talented Ph.D. students and postdocs. See the open positions for the CA³ center for details! Please send me an email with your resume and research interests!

👉 If you’re interested in my ruminations on life, visualization, and research, you probably want my blog.

👉 For details about my publications and research, please visit the CA³ website!

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