ISSonVis 2021

Menno-Jan Kraak is currently vice dean Capacity Building of the Faculty of Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation at the University of Twente. He wrote more than 200 publications on cartography and GIS. His most visible publications are books on aspects of cartography: Cartography, visualization of geospatial data (with Ormeling) and published by CRC press (4th edition 2020 – translated in 5 languages), Webcartography, developments and prospects (editor with Brown) published by Taylor and Francis 2000, and Exploring Geovisualization (edited with Dykes and MacEachren) published by Elseviers 2005. In 2014 ‘Mapping time, illustrated by Minard’s map of Napoleon’s invasion into Russia 1812’ was published by ESRI Press. This year, 2021, Mapping for a Sustainable World coedited with Roth, Ricker, Kagawa, and Le Sourd, was published by the United Nations. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals in the field of Cartography and GIScience, he has been board member and president of the Netherlands Cartographic Society and of the Society Geo-Information Netherlands (GIN), and he was the President of the International Cartographic Association for the period 2015-2019.

Gennady and Natalia Andrienko are lead scientists at Fraunhofer Institute IAIS and professors at City, University of London. They published two monographs: “Exploratory analysis of spatial and temporal data. A systematic approach” (Springer, 2005) and “Visual analytics of movement” (Springer, 2013) and a textbook entitled “Visual analytics for data scientists” (Springer, 2020). They co-authored numerous papers addressing theoretical aspects and practical applications of visual analytics approaches. Natalia and Gennady Andrienko received test of time award at IEEE VAST 2018, best paper awards at AGILE 2006, IEEE VAST 2011 and 2012, and EuroVis 2015 conferences and EuroVA 2018 and 2019 workshops, honorable mention awards at IEEE VAST 2010 and EuroVis 2017 conferences, VAST challenge awards 2008 and 2014, and best poster awards at AGILE 2007 and 2018, ACM GIS 2011 and IEEE VAST 2016 conferences.

Topi Tjukanov based in Helsinki (Finland) is enthusiastic about geospatial data, visualisation and learning the latest tricks in GIS e.g. custom map styles. He focuses on advanced visualisation and open source geospatial technology. He made custom animations for few of the biggest online media in Finland. He is well-known as a promoter of #30DayMapChallenge on social networks. Currently, he is working for Gispo company.

René Sieber is a researcher at Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation at the ETH Zurich. He is currently deputy editor-in-chief of the world-famous and many times rewarded “Atlas of Switzerland”. René has been actively engaged in the Atlas Commission of the International Cartographic Association as well as in the whole atlas community for decades.

Dr. Aileen Buckley is a Professional Cartographer and has been making maps for over 30 years. She studied and taught cartography at Oregon State University, and she was on the faculty at University of Oregon. She is currently an adjunct professor at University of Redlands. Dr. Buckley has published and lectured widely on topics of map design and GIS for mapping. She is an author of the “Atlas of Oregon” (2001) and the sixth, seventh, and eighth editions of “Map Use” (2009, 2012, and 2016). She publishes regularly in Esri’s ArcWatch and ArcUser. She is a past president of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society and is currently Chair of the AutoCarto Conference Committee. Since 2003 she has been a Research Cartographer at Esri.