New PhD: Alexander Dobler

Alexander Dobler successfully defended his PhD thesis “Algorithmic Aspects of Ordering Problems in Information Visualization” on December 11, 2025. Congratulations, Dr. Dobler!

Group photo of Dr. Dobler and parts of his defense committee

from left to right: Kathrin Hanauer (external committee member), Alexander Dobler, Martin Nöllenburg, Markus Chimani

Alexander was a PhD student in the Algorithms and Complexity Group and worked in the project Engineering Linear Ordering Algorithms for Optimizing Data Visualizations funded by WWTF. He was supervised by Martin Nöllenburg and his external thesis reviewers were Markus Chimani and Walter Didimo.