Alexandra Diehl

Alexandra Diehl is a Senior Researcher at the Visualization and MultiMedia Lab (VMML) at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on Visual Analytics, Data Science, and Environmental Sciences, with an emphasis on visualization guidelines, citizen data integration, and weather event analysis. She leads the DSI Fellowship project on visual tools for severe weather communication (2020–2022) and co-leads an SNF SPIRIT grant on uncertainty visualization in weather forecasts. Her work bridges academic and industry applications, including projects like WeaVA and Hornero.

Key research interests include visualization best practices (via VisGuides.org), societal impacts of visualization, and geospatial analysis. She actively contributes to IEEE VIS workshops, such as VisGuides 2022, and publishes extensively in journals like EuroVis. Her interdisciplinary projects address challenges in climate science, public safety, and multimedia analysis.

Notable achievements include the DSI Fellowship and collaborative grants with Argentina. Her work emphasizes empirical methodologies, including grounded theory approaches in visualization research.