- Mitglied im Zentrum für innovative Anwendungen der Informatik (ZIAI; seit 07/23)
- Mitglied im Bamberg Center for Artificial Intelligence (BaCAI; seit 11/23)
- Gründungsmitglied um Mitglied im Vorstand der Bamberg Graduate School for Smart City Science (BaSCiS; seit 11/24)
Akademische Aktivit?ten und Auszeichnungen
Personal Awards
- EuroVis Young Researcher Award 2018
- Postdoctoral Fellowship for Leading Early Career Researchers, Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
Project: “Vis-Text Interaction” - Finalist and awardee of the German National Computer Science Contest 2004 (Bundeswettbewerb Informatik): Preistr?ger (secondary award), special award for cooperative behavior
Publication Awards
- CG&A Best Paper Award 2022
Awarded paper: "Talking Realities: Audio Guides in Virtual Reality Visualizations" - EuroVis 2022 Honorable Mention Poster Award
Awarded paper: “Visually Explaining Publication Ranks in Citation-based Literature Search with PURE suggest” - VMV 2020 Best Paper Award
Awarded paper: “Visualizing Sets and Changes in Membership Using Layered Set Intersection Graphs” - VISSOFT 2019 Best Paper Award
Awarded paper: “Performance Evolution Matrix: Visualizing Performance Variations along Software Versions” - PacificVis 2018 Honorable Mention Paper Award
Awarded paper: “Visual Interactive Map Matching” - Joseph A. Schumpeter Preis 2012, University of Trier
Publication award for the ESEC/FSE 2011 paper “On the Congruence of Modularity and Code Coupling”
Reviewing Awards
- BDVA 2016 Best Reviewer Award
Journal Editorial Boards
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (since 2023)
Conference Organizing Committees
- General Chair of VISSOFT 2022
- Papers Co-Chair of PacificVis 2020
- VisNotes Co-Chair of PacificVis 2019
- Program Co-Chair of VMV 2018
- Co-organizer of GI Dagstuhl Seminar on "Visualizing Systems and Software Performance" (VSSP 2018)
- Co-organizer of VPA 2017
- Program Co-Chair of VISSOFT 2015
- NIER/Tool Demo Track Co-Chair of VISSOFT 2014
Conference Steering Committees
- EuroVis 2025
- IVAPP 2025
- VMV 2024
- IEEE VIS 2024
- EuroVis 2024
- EuroVis 2024 STARs
- IEEE VIS 2023
- EuroVis 2023
- EuroVis 2023 STARs
- IEEE VIS 2022
- GD 2020
- EuroVA 2020
- NIP 2020
- VMV 2019
- GD 2019
- VISSOFT 2019
- VAST 2019 (IEEE VIS)
- EuroVis 2019
- SANER 2019 RENE Track
- PacificVis 2019
- BDVA 2018
- VISSOFT 2018
- VAST 2018 (IEEE VIS)
- Euromicro 2018 (Software Analytics Track)
- ETVIS 2018
- EuroVis 2018
- PacificVis 2018
- VEM 2017
- VMV 2017
- VISSOFT 2017
- VAST 2017 (IEEE VIS)
- ICSME 2017
- GD 2017
- EuroVis 2017
- ICPC 2017 ERA
- PacificVis 2017
- SANER 2017 Tool Track
- VEM 2016
- BDVA 2016
- ICSME 2016
- VISSOFT 2016
- SCAM 2016 Engineering Track
- PacificVis 2016 Visualization Notes
- SANER 2016 Tool Track
- SCAM 2015 Tool Track
- ICSME 2015 ERA
- PacificVis 2015 Visualization Notes
- ICSME 2014 ERA
- ICPC 2014 ERA
Publikationen
Beck, F. (2025). PUREsuggest: Citation-based Literature Search and Visual Exploration with Keyword-controlled Rankings. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31(1), 316–326. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456199
Dotzler, K. J., Agarwal, S., & Beck, F. (2025). Visual Analysis of Poker Hands for Individual Players. EuroVisPosters2025, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.2312/evp.20251145
Glombik, D., Beck, F., Agarwal, S., & Wallner, G. (2025). Visually Exploring Team Communication and Gameplay Events in League of Legends. EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA). EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (2025). https://doi.org/10.2312/eurova.20251103
Müller, P., Panzer, L., & Beck, F. (2025). RapViz: Rhyme Detection and Visualization of Rap Music. Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 730–739. https://doi.org/10.5220/0013190700003912
Panzer, L., & Beck, F. (2025). How to Travel the City?: Making Public Transport Travel Times Explorable for Everyone. Datenbanksysteme Für Business, Technologie Und Web (BTW 2025), 03. – 07. M?rz 2025, Bamberg, Deutschland, 59–60. https://doi.org/10.18420/btw2025-106
Beck, F., & Latif, S. (2024). Visually Reporting Geographic Data Insights as Integrated Visual and Textual Representations. In D. Burghardt, E. Demidova, & D. A. Keim (Eds.), Volunteered Geographic Information: Interpretation, Visualization and Social Context (pp. 147–160). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35374-1_7
Beck, F., Panzer, L., & Redepenning, M. (2024). Local Climate Data Stories: Data-driven Storytelling to Communicate Effects and Mitigation of Climate Change in a Local Context. Proceedings: 2024 IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Climate Action and Sustainability (Viz4Climate + Sustainability), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/viz4climate-sustainability64680.2024.00005
Huth, F., Beck, F., Knittel, J., Latif, S., Koch, S., & Ertl, T. (2024). ViSCitR: Visual Summarization and Comparison of Hotel Reviews. 2024 IEEE 17th Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis), 112–121. https://doi.org/10.1109/pacificvis60374.2024.00021
Poddar, M., & Beck, F. (2024). Exploring Designs for Combined Visual Encoding of Absolute and Fractional Values. EuroVisPosters2024. EuroVis 2024 - 26th EG Conference on Visualization, May 27 - 31, 2024, Odense, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.2312/evp.20241082
Poddar, M., Sohns, J.-T., & Beck, F. (2024). Not Just Alluvial: Towards a More Comprehensive Visual Analysis of Data Partition Sequences. Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.2312/vmv.20241202
Pron, M., Agarwal, S., Poddar, M., & Beck, F. (2024). Comparative Analysis of Timeline-based Visualizations for Dynamic Overlapping Sets. EuroVis 2024: Short Papers. EuroVis, Odense, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.2312/evs.20241074
Rabsahl, S., & Beck, F. (2024). A Multi-layer Event Visualization for Exploring User Search Patterns in Literature Discovery with PUREsuggest. MuC ’24: Proceedings of Mensch Und Computer 2024, 408–412. https://doi.org/10.1145/3670653.3677502
Agarwal, S., Beck, F., & Liebers, C. (2023). CohExplore: Visually Supporting Students in Exploring Text Cohesion. EuroVis Posters 2023. EuroVis 2023, 25th EG Conference on Visualization, June 12 - 16, 2023, Leipzig. https://doi.org/10.2312/evp.20231058
Baltes, S., Pfitzmann, B., Kowark, T., Treude, C., & Beck, F. (2023). Visually Analyzing Company-Wide Software Service Dependencies: An Industrial Case Study. 2023 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 23–27. https://doi.org/10.1109/vissoft60811.2023.00012
H?ll, N., Latif, S., & Beck, F. (2023). A Business Intelligence Dashboard for the Phone: Small-scale Visualizations Embedded into a Mobile Analysis and Monitoring Solution. EuroVis 2023: Short Papers, 19–23. https://doi.org/10.2312/evs.20231037
Kalamkar, S., Beck, F., Grubert, J., & Biener, V. (2023). Remote Monitoring and Teleoperation of Autonomous Vehicles: is Virtual Reality an Option?. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 463–472. https://doi.org/10.1109/ismar59233.2023.00061
Krause, C., Agarwal, S., Burch, M., & Beck, F. (2023). Visually Abstracting Event Sequences as Double Trees Enriched with Category‐Based Comparison. Computer Graphics Forum, 42(6, e14805), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14805
Krause, C., Rieger, J., Flossdorf, J., Jentsch, C., & Beck, F. (2023). Visually Analyzing Topic Change Points in Temporal Text Collections. In T. Grosch & M. Guthe (Eds.), Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (pp. 97–105). The Eurographics Association. https://doi.org/10.2312/vmv.20231231
Liebers, C., Agarwal, S., Krug, M., Pitsch, K., & Beck, F. (2023). VisCoMET: Visually Analyzing Team Collaboration in Medical Emergency Trainings. Computer Graphics Forum, 42(3), 149–160. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14819
Rabsahl, S., Satzger, T., Grubert, J., Beck, F., & Kalamkar, S. (2023).