New PhD: Alexander Dobler

Alexander Dobler successfully defended his PhD thesis “Algorithmic Aspects of Ordering Problems in Information Visualization” on December 11, 2025. Congratulations, Dr. Dobler!

from left to right: Kathrin Hanauer (external committee member), Alexander Dobler, Martin Nöllenburg, Markus Chimani

Alexander was a PhD student in the Algorithms and Complexity Group and worked in the project Engineering Linear Ordering Algorithms for Optimizing Data Visualizations funded by WWTF . He was supervised by Martin Nöllenburg and his external thesis reviewers were Markus Chimani and Walter Didimo .