Heidrun Schumann is a German computer scientist specializing in data visualization. She is a professor emerita in the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Rostock.[1]
Education
editSchumann completed her doctorate at the University of Rostock in 1981. Her dissertation, Automatische Wegfindung von Rohrleitungen, was jointly supervised by Karl-Heinz Kutschke, Helmut Kiesewetter, Karl-Heinz Werler, and K. Willnow.[2] In 1989, she received her post-doctoral degree (Habilitation).
Books
editSchumann is a coauthor of the books Rastergraphik - Hardwareentwicklungen (in German, with Hansgeorg Meissner, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1991), Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden (in German, with Wolfgang Mueller, Springer, 2000), Visualization of Time-Oriented Data (with Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, and Christian Tominski, Springer, 2011, 2nd edition 2023) and Interactive Visual Data Analysis (with Tominski, CRC Press, 2020).
Recognition
editIn 2014, Schumann was elected as a Fellow of the Eurographics Association. In 2020, she was awarded with the Fraunhofer Medal. In the same year, she was also listed in the IEEE Visualization Academy by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community.[3]
References
edit- ^ Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Heidrun Schumann (Emerita), University of Rostock, retrieved 2021-05-06
- ^ Heidrun Schumann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy", Visualization and Graphics Technical Community, IEEE Computer Society, retrieved 2021-03-06
External links
edit- Heidrun Schumann publications indexed by Google Scholar