Dep. of Computer and
Information Science
University of Konstanz

Address
Universität Konstanz
Box 78
78457 Konstanz, Germany

Phone
++49 (0)7531 88-4749

Email
(name).(surname)@uni-konstanz.de

Blog
Visuale (updated!)

Publications

GREETINGS!

I'm a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and a PhD student at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".

I am currently part of INCIDE the "Interdisciplinary Center for interactive Data Analysis, Modelling and Visual Exploration" where we help life scientists make sense of large quantities of scientific data.

I am mainly interested in human-centric computational methods and tools to help people make sense of large quantities of complex data. Especially I am interested in Information Visualization and Visual Analytics.  In the past I've also worked on Mobile User interfaces and Usability.

I post my ideas about visualization in Visuale, my blog on Information Visualization and Data Analysis.

I am originally from Rome and I am currently located in Konstanz, Germany (a city with a beautiful lake!) where I live with Simona, Matteo, and Rocco.

ONGOING PROJECTS

INCIDE. The Interdisciplinary Center for interactive Data Analysis, Modelling and Visual Exploration. Where we help life scientist make sense of large quantities of complex scientific data like, moving and static images of cells, data on gene expression, data coming from high-throughput screening, etc.

Flow Maps. Supervised work of Ilya Boyandin's PhD work (together with Denis Lalanne) on the Humanitics Project. We are developing clever ways to represent high volume of flow data on geographical maps in a way that prominent patterns can be detected with ease and clarity.

Humanitics (SNF Project). In collaboration with the CAVA center at the United Nations in Geneva and the University of Fribourg. The project goal is to develop collaborative visual analytics tools to support UN analysist in the analysis and communication of data with humanitarian purposes.

VisMaster (EU Coordination Action). VisMaster is a project on the advancement of visual analytics at a European level. Its goal is to create a strong European community and define the next European Visual Analytics Research Roadmap. We participate as part of the working groups on data management and evaluation.

Visualization and Data Mining. Visualization and Data Mining are two alternative approaches to data analysis. The goal of this project is to understand their strength and weaknesses and to integrate them to take the best out of automatic computation and human reasoning.