- Visualisation
- Visual analytics and interactive systems, in particular for sensorly-obstructed humans
Scientific Visualisation
- Volume visualization (for example medical neuro-imaging)
- Molecular dynamics visualization
- Visualization of protein dynamics and system biology
- Visualization in Special and General Relativity
Information Visualisation and Visual Analytics
- MCSimVis: Many Core Simulations and Visualization
- IP-KOM-ÖV: Internet-Protokoll-basierte Kommunikation im öffentlichen Verkehr
- PESCaDO: Personalised Environmental Service Configuration and Delivery Orchestration
- SPP 1335: Scalable Visual Patent Analysis
- CRETA – Center for Reflective Text Analysis
- Oceanic Exchanges
There is a close cooperation with the working groups of the Visualization Research Center (VISUS) and the other departments of VIS.
Contact

Thomas Ertl
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. techn. h. c. Dr.-Ing. E. h.Professor of Practical Computer Science (retired), former director of the research group Graphic Interactive Systems at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) and former co-director of the Visualization Research Center (VISUS)