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Yuri Engelhardt

Current Residence: , Netherlands
Title: Assistant Professor
Organization: University of Amsterdam
Website: yuriweb.com/
Background:

Yuri Engelhardt is Assistant Professor in Mediastudies and Information Visualization at the University of Amsterdam, and lecturer in Information Graphics at the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design, in the Netherlands.

Yuri is interested in principles underlying the visual communication of information, from ancient pictorial inscriptions to interactive data visualizations. He combines his expertise concerning diagrams, graphics, information visualization and visual language theory with his desire to do something useful concerning social and environmental issues.

Yuri has written The Language of Graphics (see a very brief review). He is founder and moderator (1995-1999) of 'InfoDesign', the first electronic forum on information design. He is contributor and committee member for the international 'Diagrams' conferences (see Diagrams 2008), and member of the Editorial Board of the Information Design Journal (1999-present).

Yuri's educational path has included elementary school in Australia, high school in Germany, college in California, and university in the Netherlands. As an expert in information visualization he has given academic presentations and workshops in the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, the USA, and Brazil. Yuri holds an MA degree in medicine, and a Ph.D. in computer science.

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