Petra Isenberg

Dr. Petra Isenberg serves as a Research Director (DR2) at INRIA, leading the AVIZ research group and affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay. Her research specializes in information visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction, with particular focus on mobile and embedded visualization techniques. She teaches courses on Information Visualization and Visual Analytics at Université Paris-Saclay.

Her recent work has earned honorable mentions at IEEE VIS 2024 for papers on perceived readability evaluation and speech interaction in collaborative analytics. Additionally, she received the IEEE SciVis Test of Time Award (2012) for her contributions to 3D point cloud visualization techniques. Current research explores glanceable visualizations for older adults, situated visualization in motion, and modeling register variation in semantic change.