I am professor for Visual Engineering (Technische Visualistik) at the University for Applied Sciences in Dresden (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden). My teaching and research is focused on visualization and interaction techniques and technologies. During my PhD at TU Dresden, I developed a formalization for multitouch-gestures based on a semiotic analysis framework. Current research is focused on multidimensional visualization methods in the domain of machine learning and interactio