Sebastian Meier
Professor Design Of Knowledge Communication
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSebastian Meier is a designer-trained HCI and geoinformatics specialist with 13+ years building data-driven visualization and civic tech initiatives across academia, government, and industry. As Professor of Design of Knowledge Communication and founder of VisLab.io, he bridges research and practice to make complex digital data accessible and actionable for citizens, local governments, and companies. He led applied data science at Technologiestiftung Berlin and headed research at CityLAB Berlin, combining policy-minded impact work with hands-on interactive visualization development. His background spans PhD-level geoinformatics, interface & interaction design, and business studies, enabling a rare cross-disciplinary fluency. Notably, he studies the personal and cultural effects of visualization, bringing human-centered rigor to technical systems. Based in Berlin, he consistently translates complex datasets into usable tools that inform civic decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master Interface & Interaction Design, Master Interface & Interaction Design at University of Applied Sciences PotsdamCourse HCI - Research, Course HCI - Research at HPI @ University PotsdamDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Geoinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Geoinformatics at University of PotsdamDiploma Communication Design, Diploma Communication Design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences- Business - Management, - Business - Management at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (147)
rectangles10
morphing10
water10
open-data10
prototyping10
polygons9
openstreetmap9
accessibility9
geospatial9
gis9
region9
parametric9
github-desktop8
javascript8
geojson8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
svift-org/SVIFT-backend
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years
sebastian-meier/dgfk-kommission-forschung
May 2020 - Nov 2024
Website for the research commission of the German cartographic association
Contributions:5 PRs, 132 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
associationcommission
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