Heike Leitte (originally Jänicke, born 1982) is a German computer scientist specializing in information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. She is a professor of computer science and chair of visual information analysis at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.[1]

Education and career

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Leitte was born in 1982 in Wittenberg,[2] and earned a diplom (the German equivalent of a master's degree) in 2006 at Leipzig University.[1] She completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) there in 2009, with the dissertation Information Theoretic Methods for the Visual Analysis of Climate and Flow Data supervised by Gerik Scheuermann.[3]

She was a junior professor for visualization at Heidelberg University from 2010 to 2015, when she took her present position at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Prof. Dr. Heike Leitte", Visualization and HCI, Technical University of Kaiserslautern Department of Computer Science, retrieved 2024-02-24
  2. ^ Leitte, Heike, German National Library, retrieved 2024-02-24
  3. ^ Heike Leitte at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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