Moritz Stefaner

Time: 10:45 – 11:15am

Moritz Stefaner joins the symposium to speak about data for social innovation. Moritz works as a freelance designer on the crossroads of data visualization, information aesthetics and user interface design. With a background in Cognitive Science (B.Sc. with distinction, University of Osnabrueck) and Interface Design (M.A., University of Applied Sciences Potsdam), his work beautifully balances analytical and aesthetic aspects in mapping abstract and complex phenomena. He is especially interested in the visualization of large scale human activity. In 2010, he was nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany and his work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH and ars electronica. He has co-authored books for publishers like O’Reilly and Springer and has spoken and lectured on numerous occasions on the topic of information visualization. Find his personal portfolio at http://moritz.stefaner.eu, he also blogs athttp://well-formed-data.net and http://infosthetics.com/

Follow Moritz on Twitter: @moritz_stefaner