Short bio

Kawa Nazemi has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science since 2016. There, he teaches and conducts research in the areas of HCI, visual analytics and artificial intelligence.

Between 2007 and 2016, Professor Nazemi conducted research at Fraunhofer IGD in the Information Visualisation and Visual Analytics department. From 2011, he headed the Semantic Visualisation group, which developed user-centred visualisation solutions, and was deputy head of department. He received his doctorate in adaptive and intelligent visualisation from the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt. He was responsible for a large number of national and European projects and various research contracts for industry. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and a member of various programme committees. His research has been recognised by the Academia Europaea with the Burgen Scholarship Award and by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, among others.

Additional functions

• Faculty Council (member, deputy)
• institute member
• Doctoral Centre (Member)
• Senate Committee on Research and Development (Deputy Member)
• Academic advisor
• Advising tutor for international students