
Marian Dörk
Information Visualization
Marian Dörk is a research professor for Information Visualization & Management at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and co-director of the UCLAB.
After earning a Dipl.-Ing. in Computational Visualistics from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (2008), Marian completed a PhD on visualization for information seeking at the University of Calgary, Canada (2012). During his doctorate, he had the opportunity to collaborate with reseachers and engineers at Google, Microsoft and IBM. Following a post-doctoral year at the Culture Lab at Newcastle University, UK, he joined the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in 2013.
In Potsdam he co-founded the Urban Futures Institute and the MA programme of the same name. Since 2015 he has co-directed the Urban Complexity Lab (UCLAB), a transdisciplinary research group at the intersection of computing, design, and the humanities. Most of his work is collaborative, exploring how data visualizations can become critical, participatory, and context-sensitive media. Recent projects investigate the careful interweaving of exploration and narration in data journalism, science communication, digital humanities, and cultural heritage.
His research appears regularly in academic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), and Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). Across teaching, research, and design practice, Marian studies data visualization as a catalyst for reflection, imagination, and transformation.