Niklas Elmqvist
Niklas Elmqvist is a professor of computer science at Aarhus University, where he directs the Center for Anytime Anywhere Analytics. His work sits where data visualization meets human-computer interaction, and ACM named him a Fellow in January 2025 for contributions to ubiquitous, immersive, and human-centered AI technologies for data visualization. He earned a PhD at Chalmers University of Technology in 2006 and then worked on the faculties of Purdue University and the University of Maryland. In April 2023 VILLUM FONDEN chose him as a Villum Investigator, and he joined Aarhus University in July 2023 to set up CA3. IEEE elevated him to Fellow in 2024.
- Now at
- Aarhus University
- Works
- 298
- Citations
- 8,421
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- 49
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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2006
A PhD from Chalmers
He completes a PhD in computer science at Chalmers University of Technology in 2006. After graduation, he works as a postdoctoral researcher at INRIA/LRI at Université Paris-Sud.
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2008–2014
Assistant professor at Purdue
He joins Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an assistant professor in 2008. In 2013 he receives a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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2009
Hierarchical aggregation for visualization
In his 2009 paper "Hierarchical Aggregation for Information Visualization," he proposes a model for building, visualizing, and interacting with multiscale representations.
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2014–2021
Directing the Maryland HCI Lab
He joins the University of Maryland faculty in 2014. From 2016 to 2021 he directs the university's Human–Computer Interaction Lab.
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2015–2020
Associate editor of TVCG
He serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2015 to 2020, and he receives its Best Associate Editor Award in 2016. ACM names him a Distinguished Scientist in 2018.
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April 2023–July 2023
A Villum Investigator grant
VILLUM FONDEN selects him as a Villum Investigator in April 2023, with a grant of DKK 38.8 million to set up CA3. In July 2023 he joins the Department of Computer Science in Aarhus as a professor.
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2024–2025
IEEE and ACM Fellow
IEEE elevates him to Fellow in 2024. ACM names him a Fellow in January 2025 for contributions to ubiquitous, immersive, and human-centered AI technologies for data visualization.
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Since 2023
Director of CA3 in Aarhus
He is a professor of computer science at Aarhus University and directs the Center for Anytime Anywhere Analytics (CA3), a research center on augmented and extended reality for data visualization. His research sits where data visualization meets human-computer interaction, and he founded the research topic of ubiquitous analytics.
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