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Short Bio

Petra Isenberg (petra.isenberg@inria.fr) is a research director(DR) at the Inria Saclay Centre at Université Paris-Saclay, France in the Aviz team and part of the Computer Science Laboratory (LISN) of the University Paris-Saclay. Prior to joining Inria, she received her PhD from the University of Calgary in 2010 on collaborative information visualization. Petra also holds a Diplom-engineer degree in Computational Visualistics from the University of Magdeburg. Her main research areas are visualization and visual analytics with a focus on visualization for non-desktop devices, interaction, and evaluation. She is particularly interested in exploring how people can most effectively work together when analyzing large and complex data sets on novel display technology such as small touch-screens, wall displays, or tabletops. Petra is associate editor-in-chief at IEEE CG&A and the vice-chair of the IEEE VIS Steering Committee.

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On my papers I list multiple affiliations. What does that mean?

Here in France it is common to cite all affiliations that support you or your lab in some form - and the affiliation you list on papers isn't always the place that your salary comes from. The same is true for me. My official affiliation is:

Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique, 91405 Orsay, France

or a bit shorter

Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria, LISN, 91405 Orsay, France

Let's take this apart a little. Université Paris-Saclay was once the Université Paris Sud and a few other places that merged together. My team is part of the Université Paris-Saclay and in particular the LISN laboratory, which is the computer science lab of the university. LISN stands for "Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique" or "interdisciplinary computer science laboratory". A lab in this case is like a faculty in other parts of the world. My team belongs to a department in this laboratory called "Human Centred Interaction" department (in French: "Interaction avec l'Humain", short name "Interaction").

Almost all of our PhD students are inscribed at Paris-Saclay University, they may have funding from there, we get a little funding from them, and we give courses there as well. LISN is co-funded by the CNRS which explains why it now also needs to figure into my official affiliation. My actual employer that sends paychecks is Inria, the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Automation. My team is called Aviz.

Selected Awards

Education

Research Experience and Employment

Selected Service

• Vice/co-chair IEEE VIS Steering committee (2021--)
• Associate editor Computer Graphics Forum 2023--
• Associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2018-2022
• Paper Chair for ACM Mobile HCI, 2022
• Paper Chair for ACM ISS, 2021
• Paper Chair for IEEE Information Visualization 2018, 2019

Other Sources

• My Google Scholar Profile (my publications page here makes a better distinction between paper types, though)
• My DBLP page (my publications page here is more complete, though)
• My LinkedIn page (I update this semi-regularly)
• Microsoft Academic Profile