Soeren Nickel wins the Distinguished Young Alumn Award

Soeren Nickel , who recently joined the Algorithms and Complexity Group as a PhD student, won the Distinguished Young Alumn Award at the 29th EPILOG event of the Faculty of Informatics. With this award the Faculty of Informatics honors Soeren’s outstanding Master thesis " Generating Stable Demers and Iso-Hexagon Cartograms " as well as his excellent EPILOG presentation.

Martin Nöllenburg, Awardee Soeren Nickel, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs Stefan Woltran, and Dean Gerti Kappel. Photo credits: © Amélie Chapalain

Soeren’s thesis, supervised by Martin Nöllenburg , presents algorithms and complexity results for computing value-by-area square and hexagon cartograms to display spatiotemporal data as a highly abstract map. It has already been presented at the International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) 2019.

Congratulations to Soeren for this prestigious award!