Log
A fairly complete record of my professional activities.
Moritz Stefaner
Data Visualization Designer, Consultant & Researcher — Truth & Beauty Operator
- 1977-03-16
- München (Munich), Germany
- Lilienthal, Germany
- Eickedorfer Damm 35, D-28865 Lilienthal, Germany
- moritz@truth-and-beauty.net, moritz@stefaner.eu
- truth-and-beauty.net
- linkedin.com/in/moritzstefaner
- scholar.google.de/citations?user=JkhZL8QAAAAJ
- endearcommons
Projects
| Year | Project | Description | Client | Collaborators | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | A Hidden Infrastructure | Interactive 3D globe and long-form data narrative mapping Earth's arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks at 1 km² resolution — built from 16,000 soil cores and robotic imaging of 300,000 hyphae. Published alongside the Science paper revealing 110 quadrillion km of fungal networks (a billion round-trips to the Sun). Extensive global coverage in Scientific American, National Geographic, Science Friday and beyond. | SPUN (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) | SPUN research team (Toby Kiers et al.) | Page | Live |
| 2026 | BikeNetKit | Data-visualization project with the IT University of Copenhagen. | IT University of Copenhagen | |||
| 2025 | State of Neuroscience | Mapping ~350,000 neuroscience publications into a semantic concept landscape. | The Transmitter (Simons Foundation) | The Transmitter, World Wide Neuro | Page | Live |
| 2022 | Lilienthal Solargraphy | Autographic, data-less solargraphy images recorded with pinhole cameras over six months. | Page | |||
| 2022 | Swiss Re — 360° CRM visualization | 360-degree CRM data visualization for Swiss Re. | Swiss Re | Studio NAND | ||
| 2022 | Climate & Conflict Analysis | Visual explanation of the relationship between climate change and violent conflict. | German Federal Foreign Office (PREVIEW) | PIK Potsdam, UniBW | Page | |
| 2022–2026 | Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index | Mapping the overlap of climate and conflict risks; launched by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at BCSC 2024. | German Federal Foreign Office (PREVIEW) | PIK Potsdam, UniBW | Page | Live |
| 2021–2023 | WHO Data Design Language | Data design language for data.who.int — building blocks for rich, accessible, equitable public-health data experiences. | KORE, WHO | KORE, 9elements, Christian Laesser, Alice Thudt, Flavio Gortana | Page | Live |
| 2021–2022 | Impfdashboard | The official German COVID-19 vaccination dashboard; a mobile-first benchmark for governmental data communication. | German Federal Ministry of Health | Studio NAND, Cosmonauts & Kings | Page | Live |
| 2020 | Waves of Interest | Google Search interest across U.S. election years. | Google News Lab | Simon Rogers, Alberto Cairo, Destry Sibley, Philippe Rivière | Page | Live |
| 2020–2021 | Einstein Designer / Deep Learning UX | Generative, personalized design at scale: analysis, visualization and synthesis of design features. | Salesforce | Sönke Rohde (lead) | Page | |
| 2020 | The Language of Science | Language shifts across 175 years (5,107 issues) of Scientific American. | Scientific American | Jen Christiansen (art direction) | Page | Live |
| 2020 | Salesforce — Design Genome & Slack Channel Synthesis | Data-visualization design for Salesforce's Design Genome and Slack Channel Synthesis. | Salesforce | |||
| 2019 | Perpetual Plastic | A 14m/46ft data sculpture made from beach debris showing the fate of all plastic ever produced. | Liina Klauss, Skye Morét | Page | Live | |
| 2019–2020 | Covestro Dashboard | Prototype on market trends intelligence for Covestro. | Covestro | Studio NAND, Christian Au | ||
| 2018–2019 | GROW Soil Moisture Maps | Soil-moisture models combining sensor and satellite data for agriculture and climate forecasting. | GROW Observatory | FutureEverything | Page | Live |
| 2018 | Under the Sun | A 24-hour trip around the world following the sun's zenith. | Page | Live | ||
| 2018 | Multiplicity | A collective photographic portrait of Paris using machine learning. | 123data exhibition at Fondation EDF | Page | ||
| 2017 | Wahl 2Q17 | Google Trends search interest in the German federal election 2017. | Google News Lab | Dominikus Baur, Christian Laesser | Page | Live |
| 2017–2021 | Peak Spotting | Visual analytics and machine learning to manage passenger loads in the German rail network. | Deutsche Bahn AG | Studio NAND, Christian Laesser | Page | |
| 2016 | The Rhythm of Food | Food seasonality from twelve years of Google search data. | Google News Lab | Yuri Vishnevsky | Page | Live |
| 2016 | EPFL Data Monolith | Immersive data perspective on university life. | EPFL Lausanne | Mediaproducción, Olga Subiros | Page | |
| 2016 | brand eins infographics | Information graphics for brand eins business magazine (incl. 'Digitalisierung'). | brand eins | |||
| 2016 | -ach, -ingen, -zell | Visual exploration of spatial patterns in German place-name endings. | Page | Live | ||
| 2015 | Open Systems Wall Display | Real-time, large-scale visualization of network-security situations. | Open Systems | Page | Live | |
| 2015 | Excellence Networks | How successful research institutions collaborate; based on research with Bornmann, Mutz, de Moya Anegón. | Page | Live | ||
| 2015 | Max Planck Research magazine | Double-spread data graphics explaining cutting-edge research. | Max Planck Society | Page | Live | |
| 2015 | False Positive | Surveillance-themed street intervention and data visualization. | Mark Shepard, Julian Oliver | Page | Live | |
| 2015–2016 | Project Ukko | Seasonal wind-speed predictions for the wind-energy sector; the climate-services data-visualization strand of the EU EUPORIAS project, with FutureEverything as design lead. | FutureEverything / Barcelona Supercomputing Center (EUPORIAS) | Dominikus Baur, Stefanie Posavec, Drew Hemment (FutureEverything, project director) | Page | Live |
| 2014 | ON BROADWAY | Interactive installation portraying life along the 13 miles of Broadway, Manhattan. | Lev Manovich, Dominikus Baur, Daniel Goddemeyer, Daniel Mehrdad | Page | Live | |
| 2014 | Visual Funding Portfolios | Comparison of science-funding profiles of funders and institutions. | uberresearch | Page | Live | |
| 2014 | OECD Regional Well-Being | Well-being across 300+ regions worldwide. | OECD | Dominikus Baur | Page | Live |
| 2014 | OECD Data Portal | Data visualization strategy and design for the OECD data portal. | OECD | Raureif, 9elements | Page | Live |
| 2014 | Selfiecity | Interdisciplinary study of the selfie phenomenon; creative lead for design, visualization and analysis. | Lev Manovich, Dominikus Baur, Daniel Goddemeyer, Daniel Mehrdad | Page | Live | |
| 2013 | Wahlland | A new kind of election map ('Electionland') for the 2013 German Bundestag elections. | ZEIT Online | Page | Live | |
| 2013 | Where the wild bees are | Bee-population change over 120 years. | Scientific American | Jen Christiansen | Page | Live |
| 2013 | Global trade flows | Mid-term economic trends in global trade. | Citibank | Page | ||
| 2013 | Stadtbilder | Mapping the digital shape of cities. | Page | Live | ||
| 2013 | footbonaut | Data visualization for the footbonaut, a robotic football training system. | CGoal (footbonaut) | MING Labs (Christian Behrens) | ||
| 2012 | Max Planck Research Networks | Multi-touch installation on Max Planck institutes' collaborations, at the Max Planck Science Gallery, Berlin. | Max Planck Society | Page | Live | |
| 2012 | FIFA Development Globe | Geometric globe presenting FIFA's worldwide development activities. | FIFA | Page | Live | |
| 2012 | Müsli Ingredient Network | Analysis of custom muesli mixtures. | mymuesli.com | Page | ||
| 2012 | Remixing Rosling | Gapminder-style remixes for an interview with Hans Rosling. | Church of London | Google ‘Think Quarterly’ | Page | Live |
| 2012 | emoto | Emotional online response to London 2012 on Twitter: interactive visualization plus physical data sculpture. | FutureEverything for the Cultural Olympiad | Drew Hemment, Studio NAND | Page | Live |
| 2012 | RESONET | Mapping the Twitter community around the resonate festival. | Page | |||
| 2012 | Data Cuisine | Food as a medium for data expression ('edible diagrams'); ongoing workshops since 2012. | prozessagenten | Page | Live | |
| 2012 | Mapping scientific excellence (excellencemapping.net) | Web application to browse and explore which institutions publish the most excellent papers across science subject areas. With Lutz Bornmann, Rüdiger Mutz, Félix de Moya Anegón. | Live | |||
| 2011 | Notabilia | Visualizing the longest deletion discussions on Wikipedia. | Dario Taraborelli, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia | Page | Live | |
| 2011 | revisit | Real-time visualization of Twitter conversations around a topic. | Page | |||
| 2011–2016 | WEF Global Risks Report & Transformation Maps | Long-running information-graphics and data-visualization work for the WEF — the annual Global Risks Report (2015–2021), Transformation Maps, the Inclusive Growth Report and the Global Competitiveness Index. | World Economic Forum | Page | ||
| 2011 | Skype UX maps | User-experience and information maps developed for Skype. | Skype | Page | ||
| 2011 | Max Planck Science Gallery | Interactive network and trend visualizations for a Max Planck Society science gallery installation. | Max Planck Society | |||
| 2010–2014 | OECD Better Life Index | Comparing well-being beyond GDP; launched for the OECD's 50th anniversary and widely regarded as seminal. | OECD | Raureif, Dominikus Baur | Page | Live |
| 2010 | Map your moves | 4,000+ moves by 1,700 New Yorkers from a WNYC survey. | WNYC | Page | Live | |
| 2009 | Well-formed Eigenfactor | Visualizing information flow between scientific journals; exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2009. | Martin Rosvall, Jevin West, Carl Bergstrom (Bergstrom Lab, University of Washington) | Page | Live | |
| 2009 | X by Y | An information-aesthetic exploration of the Ars Electronica archives ('The Design of X by Y'). | Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for media.art.research | Page | Live | |
| 2008 | mæve | Interactive tabletop installation connecting the EveryVille competition and MACE content; shown at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008. | MACE project | Boris Müller, Till Nagel (lead) | Page | |
| 2008 | Content Landscape | Faceted browsing for knowledge management in the enterprise | SVA BizSphere AG | Page | Live | |
| 2008 | Elastic timeline | A fish-eye distorted timeline designed and developed for the Swiss news programme Tagesschau. | Swiss Tagesschau (SRF) | ymc.ch | Page | |
| 2007–2009 | MACE | Pan-European initiative interconnecting digital information about architecture; UI and data visualization design (as research assistant at FH Potsdam). | Page | Live | ||
| 2007 | Elastic Lists | Interface technique and demos for faceted browsing of multi-dimensional data. | Page | Live | ||
| 2006–2011 | Relation Browser | Early interactive tool for exploring relationships between items; licensed to and adapted for clients including Sony, Talis, Siderean Software, Lijit Networks, NSPCC and Smartlogic. | Page | Live | ||
| 2005 | feelSpace | Study project developing a haptic compass worn as a belt, evaluating its long-term effects. Role: logo & website design, planning & organization, background research. | Live | |||
| 2004 | RAFT | Interaction design and information architecture for the EU project RAFT; implemented a system prototype in Flash / FlashComm. | Fraunhofer Institute, Sankt Augustin | Page | ||
| 2003 | Organic link network | Moritz's first interactive visualization, built for an early version of his personal website; a focus-and-context navigation demo. | Page | |||
| 2001 | Crystal Racer | Promotional Flash action game for ZEUS insurance, produced at neteye: a 'Save the World' hoverboard platformer with prizes including a Vespa and a PlayStation 2. Moritz was production leader. | ZEUS (insurance) | neteye°° GmbH (studio) | Live |
Awards
| Year | Award | Project | Place | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Malofiej Award — Silver | The Language of Science | Pamplona, Spain | Page | Link |
| 2020 | Fast Company Innovation by Design — Finalist (Data Design) & Honorable Mention (General Excellence) | Einstein Designer | New York | Page | Link |
| 2019 | National Geographic Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge — Gold | Perpetual Plastic | Washington, DC | Page | Link |
| 2018 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (Unusual) | Multiplicity | New York | Page | Link |
| 2017 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (Sports, Games & Leisure) | The Rhythm of Food | London | Page | Link |
| 2017 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Bronze | Peak Spotting | London | Page | Link |
| 2016 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (Data Project) | Data Cuisine | London | Page | Link |
| 2016 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Silver | Project Ukko | London | Page | Link |
| 2016 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Outstanding Individual | Special recognition | London | Page | Link |
| 2015 | Information is Beautiful Award — Silver (Dataviz Project) | On Broadway | Page | Link | |
| 2014 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Gold (website) | Selfiecity | Page | Link | |
| 2014 | Information is Beautiful Awards — Silver (website) | OECD Regional Well-Being | Page | Link | |
| 2014 | Malofiej Award — Bronze | Wahlland | Pamplona, Spain | Page | Link |
| 2013 | Information is Beautiful Award — Bronze (Data Visualization) | emoto | Page | Link | |
| 2012 | Information is Beautiful Award — Best Interactive Visualisation | Notabilia | Page | Link | |
| 2010 | Nominee, Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (German Federal Design Award) | Page | |||
| 2007 | Fachhochschulpreis — Best Master's Thesis | Visual Tools for the Socio-Semantic Web | FH Potsdam | ||
| 2003 | Kornfeld Media Award — “Medien im Wandel der Zeit” (Winner) | ||||
| 2001 | “Golden Vector” Award — Best German website intro movie (Co-winner) | Crystal Racer | Berlin Beta | Link | |
| 2001 | FlashForward Film Festival — Finalist, Cartoon category (co-finalist; production leader) | Crystal Racer | Link |
Exhibitions
| Year | Title | Venue / location | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Data Cuisine | Wissen in Bildern – Informationsdesign heute, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland | Page | Link |
| 2019 | The Rhythm of Food | Graphic Matters: Information Superpower, Breda, Netherlands | Page | Link |
| 2018 | Distribution (Selfiecity / On Broadway) | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY | ||
| 2018 | Mapping the Archive (Prix Ars Electronica), MACE Classification Tree, Visual Funding Portfolios, The Rhythm of Food, Excellence Networks | Places & Spaces (travelling, 375+ venues, 28 countries) | Page | Link |
| 2018 | 123 data (Project Ukko, On Broadway, Selfiecity, Data Cuisine, Multiplicity) | Fondation EDF, Paris, France | Page | Link |
| 2017 | On Broadway | Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea | ||
| 2016 | Project Ukko | FutureEverything, Manchester | Page | |
| 2016 | Project Ukko | Information+, Vancouver | Page | Link |
| 2015 | Selfiecity (London edition) | Big Bang Data, Somerset House, London, UK | Page | Link |
| 2015 | Stadtbilder | Data Drift, Riga, Latvia | Page | Link |
| 2015 | On Broadway | SUSAS 2015, Shanghai | Page | |
| 2015 | On Broadway | Data Drift, Riga | Page | |
| 2015 | On Broadway | Data in the 21st Century (V2_), Rotterdam | Page | |
| 2015 | False Positive | Ars Electronica, Linz | Page | |
| 2015 | False Positive | iMAL, Brussels | Page | |
| 2015 | False Positive | Urbane Künste Ruhr, Hagen | Page | |
| 2015 | False Positive | Media Lab Prado, Madrid | Page | |
| 2015 | False Positive | FACT, Liverpool | Page | |
| 2014 | Selfiecity (SelfieSãoPaulo) | SP_Urban Festival, São Paulo, Brazil | Link | |
| 2014 | On Broadway | The Public Eye, New York Public Library, New York, USA | Link | |
| 2013 | Data Table (interactive exhibit) | Science centre exhibit (via Trillian), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 2012 | emoto | GeoCity SmartCity, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China | Link | |
| 2012 | Max Planck Research Networks | Max Planck Science Gallery, Berlin, Germany | Page | Link |
| 2012 | Notabilia | FutureEverything, Manchester, UK | Page | Link |
| 2009 | Well-formed Eigenfactor | SIGGRAPH 2009 — Information Aesthetics Showcase, New Orleans, USA | Page | Link |
| 2009 | Well-formed Eigenfactor | Powerdome (immersive projection environment), Potsdam, Germany | Link | |
| 2008 | mæve (MACE) | Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy | Link |
Talks & Keynotes
| Date | Title | Type | Event | Location | On t-b.net | Event link | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Crafting information experiences | Internal talk | ZEISS Meditec — Community of Practice | online | |||
| 2026 | The Art and Science of Data Visualization | Talk | KSCN Vortragsreihe — SciCom Lab exhibition (Atelierhaus im Anscharpark) | Kiel | |||
| 2025-11 | Beautiful Insights — The Art and Science of Data Communication | Keynote | VISCOMM workshop at IEEE VIS | Vienna | Page | Event | |
| 2025 | Kiel Life Science reception | Talk | Kiel Life Science (CAU Kiel) | Kiel | |||
| 2025 | Invited talk | Talk | Flying Tokyo (by Rhizomatiks / Daito Manabe, with Shirley Wu) | Tokyo | Recording | ||
| 2025 | University of Osnabrück — Alumni Conference | Talk | Alumni Conference | Osnabrück | |||
| 2025 | The art and science of data visualization | Talk | University of Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2025 | Öffentliches Gestalten #11 — 'Truth & Beauty for the German administration' | Invited talk | Öffentliches Gestalten meetup (CityLAB Berlin / DigitalService) | Berlin | |||
| 2025 | The art and science of data visualization | Talk | Constructor University Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2025 | Finding Truth & Beauty in Data | Talk | Guest lecture, Information Design course (Prof. Dominikus Baur), Hochschule München (HM) | Munich | |||
| 2024 | Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index | Talk | Dataviz Meetup Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2024 | Beautiful insights — the art and science of data visualization | Talk | Data Train, University of Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2024 | Data Design Systems | Talk | Graphic Hunters | online | |||
| 2023 | The art and science of data visualization | Talk | Kiel | ||||
| 2023 | Schöner Wissen | Talk | Datalounge | Kiel | |||
| 2023 | Solutions conference — From spark to ember | Talk | Solutions conference | Hamburg | |||
| 2023 | Creative AI | Talk | DSAG | Bremen | Recording | ||
| 2023 | Dataviz A–Z | Talk | Dataviz Meetup Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2023 | SWOTbot.ai — product demo | Talk | iPos E2E Round Table, Digital Hub Industry Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2022-06 | The Art and Science of Data Visualization | Keynote | Eurovis | Rome | Page | Event | Recording |
| 2022-02 | Visual Rhetorics / Data Art for Climate Action | Talk | DACA 2022 | online | Page | Event | Recording |
| 2022 | Beyond the bar chart — how new data languages can make complexity graspable | Talk | Data Train, University of Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2022 | Beyond the bar chart: how new data languages can make complexity graspable | Talk | Famous Friends (Data+Women & IIID) | online | |||
| 2022 | Champions League of Data Viz | Lecture | Deloitte | online | |||
| 2022 | The Dataviz Mindset | Talk | HfK Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2022 | Visualizing the Invisible: Covid-19 Information Design | Panel | Center for Design, Northeastern University — Conversation Series | online | |||
| 2022 | Beautiful Insights | Talk | GEOMAR Postdoc Lunch | Kiel | |||
| 2022 | Data physicalization | Invited talk | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin | Berlin | |||
| 2022 | On Data And Design #20 — The Dataviz Mindset | Talk | On Data And Design (Superdot) | online | Recording | ||
| 2021-11 | Behind the scenes: how we designed the official German COVID-19 vaccination dashboard | Talk | SHOW conference | Utrecht | Page | Recording | |
| 2021 | The dataviz mindset | Talk | Solutions | Hamburg | Page | ||
| 2021 | What’s a dashboard, anyways? — Designing the German COVID-19 vaccination dashboard | Talk | KIKK Festival | Namur | |||
| 2021 | CO-RE — ‘Statistics on the Table’, Haus der Statistik Berlin | Talk | CO-RE (Contextual Research) / UdK Berlin | Berlin (remote) | |||
| 2021 | Finding Truth & Beauty in Data | Talk | Cosmonauts & Kings | Berlin | |||
| 2021 | Schöner Wissen — the art and science of data visualization | Talk | Muthesius Hochschule Kiel | ||||
| 2020 | It's a process | Talk | Datavis Lisboa | Lisbon | Page | ||
| 2020 | Beautiful insights — data visualization | Talk | FH Potsdam | Potsdam | |||
| 2019-06 | dataviz : ecologies | Talk | eyeo festival | Minneapolis | Page | Event | Recording |
| 2019-03 | The art and science of data visualization | Keynote | VIZBI | Heidelberg | Page | Event | Recording |
| 2019 | Advanced Ceramics Group, University of Bremen — Beautiful insights | Talk | Advanced Ceramics Group, University of Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2019 | The Data Interface | Talk | FH Potsdam | Potsdam | |||
| 2019 | Data Deluge | Lecture | HBK Braunschweig | Braunschweig | |||
| 2019 | Staff session on storytelling & visualization trends | Talk | Unitaid (WHO) | Geneva | |||
| 2018-05 | Macarons and Catacombs | Keynote | OpenVisConf | Paris | Page | Event | Recording |
| 2018 | MIMENIMA Summerschool — Beyond the Bar Chart | Talk | MIMENIMA Summerschool, University of Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2018 | Peak Spotting — a case study | Talk | FH Potsdam Alumni Day | Potsdam | |||
| 2018 | Crafting data experiences | Talk | Shenkar ISVIS 2018 | Tel Aviv | Recording | ||
| 2018 | Big Data panel & data-viz talk | Panel | International Cultural Forum | St. Petersburg | |||
| 2018 | DB Academy — Data Science for Managers | Talk | Deutsche Bahn Academy | Frankfurt | |||
| 2018 | Invited talk | Talk | Regionalkonferenz Logistik (Metropolregion Bremen) | Bremen | |||
| 2017 | Truth & Beauty — data visualization (general lecture) | Talk | Airbnb | San Francisco | |||
| 2017 | Beyond the bar chart | Talk | World Usability Day (DB Systel, Frankfurt) | Frankfurt | |||
| 2016 | Data Cuisine | Talk | eyeo festival | Minneapolis | Page | ||
| 2016 | Invited talk | Talk | FutureEverything | Manchester | Recording | ||
| 2016 | Invited talk | Talk | Information+ | Vancouver | |||
| 2016 | Data-Driven Storytelling seminar | Talk | Schloss Dagstuhl | Wadern | |||
| 2016 | Data visualization — UX workshop | Talk | SAP | Walldorf | |||
| 2016 | Truth & Beauty — data visualization | Talk | SAP UX Day | Walldorf | |||
| 2016 | Beyond the bar chart: data visualization off the beaten track | Talk | Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR), Northeastern University | Boston | |||
| 2016 | Data visualization — Truth & Beauty academy | Talk | trivago Design Academy | Düsseldorf | |||
| 2016 | Google (Big Picture team) — Beyond the bar chart | Talk | Google, hosted by Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viégas | Cambridge, MA | |||
| 2015 | Data / Identity / Memory | Talk | FutureEverything | Manchester | Page | ||
| 2015 | Invited talk | Talk | Visualized | New York | Page | ||
| 2015 | Yeah, science. | Talk | resonate | Belgrade | Page | ||
| 2015 | Data Cuisine | Talk | KIKK Festival | Namur | |||
| 2015 | Invited talk | Talk | Open Systems | Zürich | |||
| 2015 | Invited talk | Keynote | Qlik Visualize Your World 2015 (DACH) | Mainz | Recording | ||
| 2015 | Selfiecity | Talk | art+bits festival (Medialab Katowice) | Katowice | |||
| 2015 | Invited talk | Talk | University of Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2014-06 | Beyond the bar chart | Keynote | Gurus of BI | Oslo | Page | Event | Recording |
| 2014 | Invited keynote | Keynote | DL2014 — The Search Is Over! (Exploring Cultural Collections with Visualization) | London | Page | ||
| 2014 | Data with a cause | Panel | IEEE VIS panel | Paris | Page | ||
| 2014 | Invited talk | Talk | Visualized | New York | |||
| 2014 | Selfiecity | Talk | resonate | Belgrade | |||
| 2014 | Data Visualization New York Meetup — Visualized special edition (with Cedric Kiefer) | Talk | Data Visualization New York Meetup | New York | |||
| 2014 | Invited talk | Talk | Infographics Congres 2014 | Zeist | |||
| 2014 | Invited talk | Talk | CHI Belgium | Belgium | Recording | ||
| 2014 | Invited talk | Talk | re:publica | Berlin | |||
| 2014 | Invited talk | Talk | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) | Barcelona | |||
| 2014 | Invited talk | Talk | World Economic Forum | Geneva | |||
| 2014 | Invited talk | Talk | PhUSE SDE Basel (pharma data conference) | Basel | |||
| 2014 | Beyond the bar chart | Talk | Fraunhofer MEVIS | Bremen | |||
| 2013-07 | Finding Truth & Beauty in Data | Keynote | European Communication Summit | Brussels | Page | Recording | |
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | eyeo festival | Minneapolis | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | resonate | Belgrade | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | Visualized | New York | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | 9. Münchner Typotag (tgm) | Munich | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | DBVIS retreat, University of Konstanz | Konstanz | |||
| 2013 | The art and science of data visualization | Talk | University of Osnabrück | Osnabrück | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | Big Data Viz Symposium | Copenhagen | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | Tell-a-Viz (Bertelsmann Stiftung / GED Project) | Berlin | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | World 2.0 conference (CPH:DOX) | Copenhagen | |||
| 2013 | Invited talk | Talk | EcoVIZ Tansley Working Group, Silwood Park (Imperial College) | Ascot | |||
| 2013 | Innovation sessions | Talk | Capital One UK | Nottingham | |||
| 2012 | OMG — it’s all connected | Talk | eyeo festival | Minneapolis | Page | ||
| 2012 | Weltbilder | Talk | FutureEverything | Manchester | Recording | ||
| 2012 | Adventures in data visualization | Talk | Push Conference | Munich | |||
| 2012 | emoto: visualising the online response to London 2012 | Talk | Strata London | London | |||
| 2012 | Intent & Impact — how data visualization can make a change | Panel | SXSW Interactive | Austin | |||
| 2012 | Adventures in data visualization | Talk | Visualizing Knowledge (Tieto Näkyväksi) | Helsinki | |||
| 2012 | Designer Q&A | Q&A / mentoring | Visualizing.org Q&A / Marathon | online | |||
| 2012 | OMG — it’s all connected | Jury & talk | Malofiej 20 | Pamplona | |||
| 2012 | Truth & Beauty Operations | Keynote | ChALS ’12 (Chalmers) | Gothenburg | |||
| 2012 | Mapping the real worlds | Talk | Nokia Location & Commerce / HERE | Berlin | |||
| 2012 | Invited talk | Talk | WHO | Geneva | |||
| 2012 | Visual narratives: what’s the story? | Talk | Virtual Identity Kaminabend | Munich | |||
| 2012 | Invited talk | Talk | Suniweb Conference (University of Gothenburg) | Gothenburg | |||
| 2012 | Visualising the future of our planet: can we do better than heat maps? | Invited talk | MSR Cambridge workshop | Cambridge | |||
| 2011 | Invited talk | Talk | eyeo festival | Minneapolis | Page | ||
| 2011 | Data visualization and how it can change our worldviews | Talk | Alpha-ville Festival | London | Recording | ||
| 2011 | Notabilia: visualizing deletion discussions on Wikipedia | Talk | This Happened Hamburg | Hamburg | |||
| 2011 | Invited talk | Talk | Visualizing Marathon | Berlin | |||
| 2011 | Invited talk | Talk | EDIT 11 | Røros | |||
| 2011 | Invited talk | Talk | Visualizing Europe | Brussels | |||
| 2010 | Lasst die Daten sprechen | Talk | decoded conference | Munich | Page | ||
| 2010 | Invited talk | Talk | Colloquium, HfK Bremen | Bremen | |||
| 2010 | Information aesthetics | Talk | Colloquium, TU Dresden | Dresden | |||
| 2010 | Information aesthetics — and how to make a living with it | Talk | Gründungscluster, Kunsthochschule Kassel | Kassel | |||
| 2010 | Internal talk | Internal talk | Tribal | Hamburg | |||
| 2010 | Bootstrapping: use visualizations to create visualizations | Talk | VisualEyes | Milano | |||
| 2009 | well-formed.eigenfactor | Talk | SIGGRAPH 2009 — Information Aesthetics Showcase | New Orleans | |||
| 2009 | Information aesthetics (workshop & talk) | Talk | HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | Schwäbisch Gmünd | |||
| 2009 | The Scent of Information | Talk | LBI Linz | Linz | |||
| 2008 | 5 Jahre Interface Design | Panel | FH Potsdam | Potsdam | |||
| 2008 | Visual tools for the socio-semantic web | Talk | Salon Linz (LBI media.art.research) | Linz | |||
| 2008 | Visual tools for the socio-semantic web | Talk | VizThink ’08 | Berlin | |||
| 2008 | Information Design — Intelligente Visualisierungen in interaktiven Medien | Talk | xtopia (Microsoft Germany) | Berlin | |||
| 2007 | Interface Design presentation | Talk | Innovationsforum, FH Potsdam | Potsdam |
Teaching & Workshops
| Year | Title | Format | Institution | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Data visualization workshop | Workshop | HNEE Eberswalde | ||
| 2022 | HfK Bremen | Workshop | HfK Bremen | ||
| 2021 | Transition Design | Workshop | Quasar Institute, Rome, Italy | ||
| 2021 | Quasar Institute, Rome — Transition Design | Workshop | Quasar Institute | ||
| 2019 | Beyond heatmaps — Data visualization for a warming planet | Block/semester course | HfK Bremen (Digital Media program), Bremen, Germany | Page | Link |
| 2019 | HfK Bremen — Beyond Heatmaps (block/semester course) | Course | HfK Bremen | ||
| 2019 | Dataviz course | Course | |||
| 2019 | FH Potsdam — Data UI | Course | FH Potsdam | ||
| 2019 | Data Cuisine Workshop Paris | Workshop | Paris (ArTeC) | Link | |
| 2018 | Truth & Beauty for Science! / Beautiful insights — data visualization for scientists | Training | Graphic Hunters, Utrecht, Netherlands | Page | Link |
| 2018 | Everything except the chart — web-based data visualization | Workshop | IEEE VIS conference | ||
| 2018 | IEEE VIS tutorial — Everything except the chart | Tutorial | IEEE VIS | ||
| 2018 | Graphic Hunters, Utrecht — Truth & Beauty for Science! | Workshop | Graphic Hunters | ||
| 2018 | OECD workshop | Workshop | OECD | ||
| 2018 | Deutsche Bahn Academy | Workshop | Deutsche Bahn | ||
| 2017 | Deutsche Bahn | Workshop | Deutsche Bahn | ||
| 2017 | Data visualization workshop for UX designers | Internal workshop | DB Systel (Deutsche Bahn) | ||
| 2017 | Data Cuisine Workshop Pristina | Workshop | Pristina, Kosovo | Link | |
| 2016 | Max Planck Society (MPG) | Workshop | MPG | ||
| 2016 | OECD | Workshop | OECD | ||
| 2016 | Data Objects — data physicalization workshop | Workshop (with Boris Müller) | SAP | ||
| 2016 | Data Cuisine Workshop Boston | Workshop | Boston, USA | Link | |
| 2016 | Data Cuisine Workshop Gembloux | Workshop | Gembloux, Belgium (Smart Gastronomy Lab) | Link | |
| 2015 | Introduction to Data Visualisation (NERC Advanced Training Short Course) | Course | University of Oxford, Dept. of Continuing Education (with Oxford e-Research Centre & giCentre/City) | ||
| 2015 | Insect Smarts (resonate, Belgrade) | Workshop | resonate | ||
| 2015 | MPI Leipzig | Workshop | MPI Leipzig | ||
| 2015 | Introduction to Data Visualisation — NERC Advanced Training Short Course | Course | University of Oxford (Dept. of Continuing Education) | ||
| 2015 | OECD | Workshop | OECD | ||
| 2015 | Data Cuisine Workshop Leeuwarden | Workshop | Leeuwarden, NL | Link | |
| 2015 | Data Cuisine Event Berlin (Schott Ceran) | Workshop | Berlin | Link | |
| 2015 | Data Cuisine Workshop Basel | Workshop | Basel | Link | |
| 2015 | Data Cuisine Workshop & Flying Buffet Berlin | Workshop | Berlin (MICT / OpenEye) | Link | |
| 2015 | Visualization workshop | Workshop | MPG LeadNet (Harnack Haus), Berlin | ||
| 2014 | HU Berlin | Workshop | HU Berlin | ||
| 2014 | MPI Leipzig | Workshop | MPI Leipzig | ||
| 2014 | resonate workshop (Belgrade) | Workshop | resonate | ||
| 2014 | Push workshop | Workshop | |||
| 2014 | IEEE VIS tutorial | Tutorial | IEEE VIS | ||
| 2014 | University of Oxford — Introduction to Data Visualisation (CPD) | Workshop | University of Oxford | ||
| 2014 | resonate, Belgrade — Truth & Beauty workshop (with Dominikus Baur) | Workshop | resonate | Page | |
| 2014 | Data Cuisine Workshop Barcelona | Workshop | Barcelona | Link | |
| 2014 | HU Berlin — Exzellenzcluster ‘Bild Wissen Gestaltung’ (data-viz workshop for scientists) | Workshop | Exzellenzcluster Bild Wissen Gestaltung, Berlin | ||
| 2013 | Weltbilder | Block seminar (4 ECTS) | HfK Bremen (Digital Media program), Bremen, Germany | Page | Link |
| 2013 | HfK Bremen — Weltbilder (block seminar, 4 ECTS) | Seminar | HfK Bremen | ||
| 2013 | Insect Smarts workshop (eyeo, Minneapolis) | Workshop | eyeo | ||
| 2013 | BCCN / Bernstein Center workshop | Workshop | Bernstein Center | ||
| 2013 | Big Data Viz Academy | Workshop | Big Data Viz Academy | ||
| 2013 | CogSci-Datavis | Workshop | |||
| 2013 | Visual sensemaking | Workshop | Big Data Viz Academy, Copenhagen | ||
| 2012 | Insect Smarts (swarm intelligence) | Workshop | eyeo (Minneapolis) and resonate (Belgrade) | Page | Link |
| 2012 | Data Cuisine workshops (8+ since 2012) | Workshop series | Link | ||
| 2012 | Data Cuisine Workshop Helsinki (Open Data Cooking) | Workshop | Helsinki | Link | |
| 2011 | Informationsvisualisierung | Full-semester course (4 ECTS) | HfK Bremen, Bremen, Germany | ||
| 2011 | HfK Bremen — Informationsvisualisierung (full-semester course, 4 ECTS) | Course | HfK Bremen | ||
| 2011 | Informative aesthetics | Workshop | Data visualisation workshop (HEAJ Namur) | ||
| 2010 | HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | Workshop | HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | ||
| 2010 | Workshop for scientists — HU Berlin | Workshop | HU Berlin | Page | |
| 2010 | Workshop for scientists — University of Osnabrück | Workshop | University of Osnabrück | Page | |
| 2010 | Workshop for scientists — Bernstein Center Berlin | Workshop | Bernstein Center | Page | |
| 2010 | Workshop for designers — resonate | Workshop | resonate | Page | |
| 2010 | Workshop for designers — HfK Bremen | Workshop | HfK Bremen | Page | |
| 2010 | Workshop for designers — Haute École Albert Jacquard, Namur | Workshop | Haute École Albert Jacquard | Page | |
| 2010 | Workshop for designers — HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | Workshop | HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | Page | |
| 2010 | Trends in data visualization | Workshop | Visual Voltage workshop, Berlin | ||
| 2009 | Information Aesthetics | Workshops (design master program) | HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | ||
| 2009 | HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd — Information Aesthetics workshops | Workshop | HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd | ||
| 2008 | FH Potsdam — Mashups for MACE | Workshop | FH Potsdam | ||
| 2003 | University of Osnabrück — Tutor, Logic & Philosophy of Mind (2003–2005) | Tutoring | University of Osnabrück |
Academic Publications
| Year | Title | Authors | Venue | Cit. | On t-b.net | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Mapping the impact of papers on various status groups in excellencemapping.net: a new release of the excellence mapping tool based on citation and reader scores | Bornmann, L., Mutz, R., Haunschild, R., de Moya-Anegón, F., de Almeida Madeira Clemente, M., Stefaner, M. | Scientometrics 126(11), 9305–9331 | 9 | Link | |
| 2018 | Narrative design patterns for data-driven storytelling | Bach, B., Stefaner, M., Boy, J., Drucker, S., Bartram, L., Wood, J., Ciuccarelli, P., Engelhardt, Y., Köppen, U., Tversky, B. | Data-Driven Storytelling, 107–133 | 144 | Link | |
| 2018 | Introducing design in the development of effective climate services | Christel, I., Hemment, D., Bojovic, D., Cucchietti, F., Calvo, L., Stefaner, M., Buontempo, C. | Climate Services 9, 111–121 | 99 | Link | |
| 2016 | Excellence networks in science: A web-based application based on Bayesian multilevel logistic regression (BMLR) for the identification of institutions collaborating successfully | Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | Journal of Informetrics 10(1), 312–327 | 33 | Link | |
| 2016 | Project Ukko: Seasonal Wind Speed Predictions at a Glance | Christel, I., Hemment, D., Stefaner, M., Buontempo, C., et al. | WindEurope Summit 2016 | 1 | Link | |
| 2015 | Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide: The third release of excellencemapping.net | Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 9(1), 65–72 | 41 | Link | |
| 2015 | Who Publishes, Reads, and Cites Papers? An Analysis of Country Information | Haunschild, R., Stefaner, M., Bornmann, L. | ISSI | 7 | Link | |
| 2015 | Process and Progress: A Practitioner's Perspective on the How, What and Why of Data Visualization | Stefaner, M. | New Challenges for Data Design, 391–404, Springer | 2 | Link | |
| 2014 | Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias | McInerny, G. J., Chen, M., Freeman, R., Gavaghan, D., Meyer, M., Rowland, F., Spiegelhalter, D. J., Stefaner, M., Tessarolo, G., Hortal, J. | Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29(3), 148–157 | 183 | Link | |
| 2014 | Ranking and mapping of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide based on highly-cited papers: A visualisation of results from multi-level models | Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | Online Information Review 38(1), 43–58 | 125 | Link | |
| 2014 | What is the effect of country-specific characteristics on the research performance of scientific institutions? Using multi-level statistical models to rank and map universities and research-focused institutions worldwide | Bornmann, L., Stefaner, M., de Moya Anegón, F., Mutz, R. | Journal of Informetrics 8(3), 581–593 | 93 | Link | |
| 2011 | Notabilia — Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia | Stefaner, M., Taraborelli, D., Ciampaglia, G. L. | 9 | Link | ||
| 2010 | Supporting architecture education using the MACE system | Wolpers, M., Memmel, M., Stefaner, M. | International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning 2(1–2), 132–144 | 11 | Link | |
| 2010 | The Design of "X by Y": An Information-Aesthetic Exploration of the Ars Electronica Archives | Stefaner, M. | Beautiful Visualization (eds. Steele & Iliinsky), 205–225, O'Reilly | Link | ||
| 2009 | mæve — an interactive tabletop installation for exploring background information in exhibitions | Nagel, T., Pschetz, L., Stefaner, M., Halkia, M., Müller, B. | HCI International 2009, 483–491, Springer | 28 | Link | |
| 2009 | User Interface Design | Stefaner, M., Ferré, S., Perugini, S., Koren, J., Zhang, Y. | Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search: Theory, Practice, and Experience, 75–112, Springer | 22 | Link | |
| 2009 | well-formed.eigenfactor: visualizing information flow in science | Stefaner, M., Rosvall, M., Bergstrom, C. | SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks | 3 | Link | |
| 2009 | The Eigenfactor™ Metrics: How does the Journal of Biological Chemistry stack up? | West, J. D., Stefaner, M., Bergstrom, C. T. | ASBMB Today (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), April 2009, 20–21 | Page | Link | |
| 2008 | Elastic lists for facet browsing and resource analysis in the enterprise | Stefaner, M., Urban, T., Seefelder, M. | 19th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) | 35 | Link | |
| 2008 | MACE: Connecting and enriching repositories for architectural learning | Stefaner, M., Spigai, V., Dalla Vecchia, E., Condotta, M., Ternier, S., Wolpers, M., Apelt, S., Specht, M., Nagel, T., Duval, E. | Browsing Architecture: Metadata and Beyond, 22–49 | 9 | Link | |
| 2007 | MACE — enriching architectural learning objects for experience multiplication | Stefaner, M., Dalla Vecchia, E., Condotta, M., Wolpers, M., Specht, M., Apelt, S., Duval, E. | EC-TEL 2007, 322–336, Springer | 109 | Link | |
| 2007 | Elastic lists for facet browsers | Stefaner, M., Müller, B. | 18th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 217–221 | 52 | Page | |
| 2007 | Visual Tools for the Socio-Semantic Web | Stefaner, M. | Master's thesis, Fachhochschule Potsdam | 36 | Link | |
| 2005 | Projection Techniques for Document Maps | Stefaner, M., Ludewig, P. | Bachelor's thesis, University of Osnabrück, Institute of Cognitive Science | 3 | Link | |
| 2004 | Design of an interface for technology-supported collaborative learning — the RAFT approach | Terrenghi, L., Specht, M., Stefaner, M. | Entertainment Computing — ICEC 2004 (M. Rauterberg, ed.), 3rd International Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Sept 1–3, 2004, 522–525 | 10 | Link | |
| 2004 | RAFT: a Role-Based Appliance for Collaborative Learning | Terrenghi, L., Specht, M., Stefaner, M. | 2AD: Second International Conference on Appliance Design, Bristol, UK, 2004 | |||
| 2004 | Design of an Interface for Technology-Supported Collaborative Learning — the RAFT Approach (poster) | Terrenghi, L., Specht, M., Stefaner, M. | 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2004), Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
Self-published Writing
| Year | Type | Title | Venue | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Essay | There be dragons: dataviz in the industry | Medium / Visualizing the Field | Read |
| 2016 | Essay | Little boxes | Medium | Read |
| 2014 | Interview | A Practitioner's Perspective on the How, What and Why of Data Visualization (interview with David Bihanic) | New Challenges for Data Design, Springer | Read |
| 2014 | Essay | Worlds, not stories | Medium | Read |
| 2010 | Essay | Propositional density in visualization | Medium | Read |
Podcast
Media & Press
| Year | Type | Title | Subject | On t-b.net | External |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Coverage | Scientific American — See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back | Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | Link | |
| 2026 | Coverage | National Geographic — Fungi take up more mass than people — see how they stretch across the Earth | Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | Link | |
| 2026 | Coverage | Science Friday (NPR) — Segment on the mycorrhizal fungi map | Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map (SPUN) | Link | |
| 2026 | Podcast interview | Explore Explain S6E8 (Andy Kirk) — with Enrico Bertini | Influences & career works | Page | Link |
| 2025 | Text contribution | INGRAPHICS — magazine contribution | Elon Musk autonomous-car predictions | Page | Link |
| 2025 | Podcast interview | PolicyViz Podcast #278 (Jon Schwabish) | Career, Data Stories, WHO | Page | Link |
| 2025 | Coverage | Bosch Lab blog — Learning about data visualization from Moritz Stefaner | Talk at Kiel Life Science reception | Link | |
| 2023 | Text contribution | Design und Künstliche Intelligenz (book chapter) | Einstein Designer | Page | Link |
| 2022 | Coverage | Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary (OfferZen Origins) | Use of Svelte at Truth & Beauty | Link | |
| 2021 | Podcast interview | The Data Wranglers — Data with a Purpose (Jeffrey Heer & Adam Wilson) | Impfdashboard, Peak Spotting, The Language of Science | Page | Link |
| 2021 | Coverage | Bloomberg — The rise of the pandemic dashboard | Impfdashboard | Link | |
| 2020 | Podcast interview | HeadsOfData / d:u Podcast (German) | Independent practice & data visualization | Page | Link |
| 2020 | Podcast interview | Explore Explain (Andy Kirk) — interview | The Language of Science | Page | Link |
| 2020 | Interview | Zukunftsfragen (Goethe-Institut Italy) — interview | Page | Link | |
| 2020 | Coverage | HAS Magazine (UNESCO-MOST) | Multiplicity | Page | Link |
| 2018 | Interview | Graphic Hunters — interview | Work & philosophy | Page | Link |
| 2018 | Featured project | Food & Drink Infographics (TASCHEN) | Müsli Ingredient Network | Page | Link |
| 2017 | Coverage | Fast Company — The Data Viz That's Helping Transform A $45 Billion Company | Peak Spotting / Deutsche Bahn | Page | Link |
| 2017 | Interview | Google News Lab — interview (Medium) | Wahl 2Q17 | Page | Link |
| 2016 | Coverage | BBC World Service — Can food help you understand numbers? | Data Cuisine | Link | |
| 2016 | Coverage | Deutsche Welle — New culinary trend: Data Cuisine | Data Cuisine | Link | |
| 2016 | Interview | Huck Magazine — The data visualisation artist playing with the future | Project Ukko | Link | |
| 2016 | Video | Ars Electronica — False Positive (video) | False Positive | Link | |
| 2015 | Coverage | Landscape Architecture Frontiers | On Broadway | Page | Link |
| 2015 | Coverage | The Atlantic CityLab — Masterchefs of 'Data Cuisine' | Data Cuisine | Link | |
| 2015 | Video | AP Archive — Big Bang Data (video) | Selfiecity London | Link | |
| 2014 | Text contribution | New Challenges for Data Design (Springer) — full-chapter interview | Page | Link | |
| 2014 | Text contribution | Raw Data — Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks (Thames & Hudson) | OECD Better Life Index sketches | Page | Link |
| 2014 | Featured project | Best American Infographics 2014 | Where the Wild Bees Are | Page | Link |
| 2014 | Coverage | NOVUM — feature | Page | Link | |
| 2014 | Coverage | WIRED — These Weird Meals Are Actually Clever Data Visualizations | Data Cuisine | Link | |
| 2014 | Coverage | FastCo Design — The Edible Future of Infographics | Data Cuisine | Page | Link |
| 2014 | Coverage | Designboom — Data Cuisine visualizes information through food | Data Cuisine | Link | |
| 2014 | Coverage | FlowingData — Data Cuisine uses food as the medium | Data Cuisine | Link | |
| 2014 | Coverage | Spiegel Online — Genießen nach Zahlen | Data Cuisine | Link | |
| 2013 | Coverage | La Lettura — 10 people to watch in data visualization | Page | Link | |
| 2013 | Coverage | WIRED — feature on city maps | Stadtbilder | Link | |
| 2013 | Interview | Sandra Rendgen — “The city is alive” interview | Urban data & visualization | Page | Link |
| 2013 | Interview | iCharts — portrait of Moritz Stefaner and his work | Link | ||
| 2013 | Coverage | WEAVE magazine — Stadtbilder cover (03/2013) | Page | Link | |
| 2012 | Interview | The Functional Art (Alberto Cairo) — long interview | Page | Link | |
| 2012 | Coverage | The Register — 'Data visualization: Big Data's hot cousin' | Link | ||
| 2011 | Interview | Substratum — interview | Page | Link | |
| 2011 | Podcast interview | Fell in Love with Data (Enrico Bertini) — interview on data visualization freelancing | Link | ||
| 2011 | Interview | visualizing.org — Q&A with Moritz Stefaner | Link | ||
| 2011 | Coverage | Bright magazine — feature | Notabilia | Link | |
| 2010 | Featured project | Data Flow 2 (Gestalten) — featured project | well-formed.eigenfactor | Link | |
| 2009 | Featured project | Generative Gestaltung (Hermann Schmidt) — featured project | well-formed.eigenfactor | Link | |
| 2009 | Featured project | WIRED UK — Grand designers: The world's best design work | Honorary mention (visualization) | Link | |
| 2008 | Interview | SEED magazine — text & interview (State of Science 2008) | Link |
Clients
45 entries
Airbnb · brand eins · BVL (Bundesvereinigung Logistik) · Church of London · Citibank · Converse · Covestro · Deloitte · Der Spiegel · Deutsche Bahn · dpa · EPFL · European Patent Office · FIFA · Fondation EDF · German Federal Foreign Office · German Federal Ministry of Health · Google News Initiative / News Lab · KomPart · Lijit Networks · Max Planck Society · Met Office · mymuesli · Nokia · NSPCC · OECD · Open Systems · Payback · Qlik · retail.ai (Schwarz Group) · Salesforce · Scientific American · Simons Foundation · Skype · Sony · SPUN · Swiss Re · Tableau · Talis · TASCHEN · trivago · United Nations Development Programme · WHO · World Economic Forum · ZEIT Online
Professional Service
| Period | Role |
|---|---|
| 2024–2025 | Co-organizer, Dataviz Meetup Bremen |
| 2015–2024 | Jury member, Information is Beautiful Awards |
| 2012–2018 | Advisory board member, Places & Spaces exhibition (Indiana University) |
| 2011–2016 | Evaluator, European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme |
| 2012–2013 | Advisor to the Prix Ars Electronica (Digital Communities) |
| 2012 | Jury member, Malofiej International Infographics Awards |
| Reviewer for data visualization conferences and journals (incl. IEEE TVCG) |
Work Experience
| Period | Role | Organization | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006–2009 | Research Assistant | University of Applied Sciences (FH) Potsdam, Interface Design | Potsdam, Germany | Central role designing user interfaces and data visualizations for the EU-funded research project MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe), including project management and communication within the consortium. |
| 2004–2005 | Student Research Assistant | Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück | Osnabrück, Germany | Participant in the ASADO research project (Analysis and Structuring of Aviation Documents), led by PD Dr. Petra Ludewig and PD Dr.-Ing. Helmar Gust, in cooperation with Airbus's knowledge-management and archival departments. |
| 2005 | Intern | Fraunhofer FIT (Institute for Applied Information Technology) | Sankt Augustin, Germany | Three-month internship; interaction design and information architecture for the EU project RAFT (Remotely Accessible Field Trips), including a Flash/FlashComm system prototype. |
| 2003–2005 | Tutor | Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück | Osnabrück, Germany | Tutor for courses including Logic / Foundations of Logic and Philosophy of Mind (Prof. Dr. Achim Stephan). |
| 2000–2002 | Head of Motion & Interaction Team (Motion Director) | neteye°° GmbH | Hamburg, Germany | Led the moving-image and interaction team; conception and creative direction for multimedia communication projects, with team leadership, planning, controlling and quality management. |
| 1999–2000 | Web Designer | newtecmedia | Hamburg, Germany | Web and multimedia design. |
| 1996–1997 | Zivildienst (alternative civil service) | Offene Behindertenarbeit, Protestant-Lutheran Deanery of Munich | Munich, Germany | Leisure and integration activities with people with intellectual disabilities. |
| 2005–present | Independent data visualization designer, consultant & researcher | Truth & Beauty (self-employed) | Lilienthal, Germany | Self-employed practice for data visualization, information design and interface design. |
Education
| Period | Qualification | Institution | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005–2007 | Master of Arts (M.A.), Interface Design | University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Potsdam, Germany | 1.0 (sehr gut / with distinction) | Thesis: Visual Tools for the Socio-Semantic Web — Master's degree in Design, specialization Interface Design. Thesis graded 1.0 and awarded the Fachhochschulpreis 2007 for the best Master's thesis at FH Potsdam. |
| 2002–2005 | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Cognitive Science | University of Osnabrück, Germany | 1.0, with distinction (mit Auszeichnung / hervorragend) | Thesis: Projection Techniques for Document Maps (supervised by PD Dr. Petra Ludewig) — Cognitive Science degree with major fields in Philosophy of Cognition/Mind, Neuroinformatics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. |
| 1998–1999 | Multimedia Producer Diploma | SAE (School of Audio Engineering / Institute), Hamburg, Germany | 2.3 | 12-month Multimedia Producer course (Oct 1998 – Oct 1999). |
| 1996 | Abitur (general higher-education entrance qualification) | Karl-von-Closen-Gymnasium, Eggenfelden-Gern, Germany | 1.5 | Secondary-school leaving certificate (Allgemeine Hochschulreife). |