On 4 June 2019, the annual Eurovis Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award was presented at the EuroVis 2019 Conference, which takes place from 3 to 7 June 2019 in Porto (Portugal). The EuroVis Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding dissertations in academic research and development over topics relevant to visualization. The intent of this award is to recognize excellent young researchers in their early career and to highlight visualization research. This year it went to Thomas Mühlbacher for his outstanding PhD thesis "Human-Oriented Statistical Modeling: Making Algorithms Accessible through Interactive Visualization". Congratulations!
Thomas Mühlbacher is part of the Visual Analytics research group. His work has also recently been portrayed in "Der Standard": An Eye for Mountains of Data, Feb 2019.