Congratulations to Hugh Garner on successfully defending his PhD thesis “Interactive explorative visual analytics for hierarchical meta-‘omics data”! Examiners were Dr James Procter (Dundee University) and Prof Daniel Archambault (Newcastle University). Hugh was supervised by Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad, with co-supervision from Dr Carmen Montero-Calasanz, Prof Nick Holliman, Prof Anil Wipat and Dr Alma Cantu.