Tatiana von Landesberger (née Tatiana Tekušová, 1979, also published as Tatiana Landesberger von Antburg) is a Slovak-German computer scientist who works as professor and chair for visualization and visual analytics at the University of Cologne. Her research concerns information visualization, graph drawing, and visual analytics. [1]
Von Landesberger was born in 1979 in Bratislava. [2] She studied financial mathematics as a student at Comenius University in Bratislava, [3] earning a master's degree in 2003 with the thesis Commuting Flow Models supervised by Ján Bod'a. [4] After working for the European Central Bank [3] and then at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Darmstadt, [5] she began working at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2008, [6] and completed a Ph.D. there in 2010, with the dissertation Visual Analytics of Large Weighted Directed Graphs and Two-Dimensional Time-Dependent Data, jointly supervised by Dieter W. Fellner and Jack van Wijk. [7]
She continued at Darmstadt as head of the Visual Search and Analysis Group, [3] and completed a habilitation in 2017 with the thesis Visual Data Comparison. [2] She moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and then to the University of Rostock in 2020 [6] before taking her present position at the University of Cologne. [1]
Von Landesberger was named a Burgen Scholar of Academia Europaea in 2015. [3]