Heidrun Schumann

Heidrun Schumann is a German computer scientist specializing in data visualization. She is a professor emerita in the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Rostock.

Education

Schumann completed her doctorate at the University of Rostock in 1981. Her dissertation, Automatische Wegfindung von Rohrleitungen, was jointly supervised by Karl-Heinz Kutschke, Helmut Kiesewetter,, and K. Willnow.
In 1989, she received her post-doctoral degree.

Books

Schumann is a coauthor of the books Rastergraphik - Hardwareentwicklungen, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden, Visualization of Time-Oriented Data and Interactive Visual Data Analysis.

Recognition

In 2014, Schumann was elected as a Fellow of the Eurographics Association.
In 2020, she was awarded with the Fraunhofer Medal. In the same year, she was also listed in the IEEE Visualization Academy by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community.