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Congratulations to Osman Akbulut who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Novel methods for visualising graphs”! Osman was supervised by Nick Holliman (now King’s College London), Matthew Forshaw and Ton Xin. The viva was examined by Benjamin Bach (University of Edinburgh) and Sara Johansson Fernstad.

A big welcome to Professor Daniel Archambault who joined the School of Computing and the NoVA lab as Professor of Visualization in June 2023, having been a main member of the visualization team at Swansea University for several years.

A big welcome to Alexander Macquisten who has returned to Newcastle University as a Reserarch Associate in Data Science in the Fairwater project, after having successfully defended his PhD in 2022.

Two recent publication successes for NoVA members!

• Alma Cantu, Maria Encarna Mićo-Amigo, Silvia Del Din, Sara Johansson Fernstad (2023) Parallel Assemblies Plot, a visualization tool to explore categorical and quantitative data: application to digital mobility outcomes. PacificVis conference.
• Ruddle, R. A., Cheshire, J., & Johansson Fernstad, S. (2023). Tasks and Visualizations Used for Data Profiling: A Survey and Interview Study. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

A big welcome to NoVA’s newest member Lama Alsmmahi, who started her PhD research on the 1 Nov 2022.

The NoVA web page is now live! People and project pages will be further updated shortly.