Jason Dykes is a Professor of Visualization and director of the giCentre, where he uses techniques from Cartography, Information Visualization, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science and GIScience to develop novel maps that help generate insights from data and communicate trends.

A former co-chair of the ICA Commission on GeoVisualization and lead editor of Exploring Geovisualization, he has been at the forefront of developments in exploratory interactive cartography for 20 years, his initial ideas embodied in the cartographic data visualizer - cdv - which appears in the Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics and Data Visualization.

Jason has twice acted as papers chair for IEEE Information Visualization (2012-13) and was chair of the 2014 conference in Paris. He has given keynotes at the AutoCarto, GISRUK and GIScience conferences. He was made a National Teaching Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy in 2005.

Jo Wood is a Professor of Visual Analytics at the giCentre, where he designs, builds and applies data visualization software to analyse patterns in complex datasets. He has particular interests in visualization of spatial data and narrative in visual analytic design.

His background is in Geographic Information Science and terrain analysis, and has, since 1990 been developing new methods and software that bridge the GI Science and Data Visualization domains. 

His has been a member of the organising and programme committees of a number of international conference series in visualization and geographic information science including IEEE Infovis and VAST, Eurovis, GIScience, Spatial Accuracy and Geomorphometry. He has given keynote talks at a number of venues ranging from GeoComputation to TEDx. He was head of Computer Science at City University between 2015-2018.

Kevin Allain is a PhD student who joined in 2017. His current research interests include study of trajectories, metadata analysis, display of uncertainty and metadata. He has a special interest in investigating merger of context metadata with trajectories predictions within 3D environments.

He has done a BEng from Paris 6 UPMC Sorbonne, a MSc from EIT Digital program (first year KTH, second one in TUDelft). After an internship at the European Patent Office, he joined the European Bioinformatics Institute before becoming a research assistant at Imperial College London within the Data Science Institute.

Mirela Reljan-Delaney is a PhD student who joined in 2018. She is interested in behaviour of cyclists in urban environments and is currently investigating the factors that affect stress levels in commuting journeys.

Cagatay Turkay was a Lecturer in Applied Data Science at the giCentre. His research mainly focuses on the tight integration of interactive visualizations, data analysis techniques and supporting exploratory knowledge and capabilities of experts. He is no Associate Professor at Warwick University.

Roger Beecham's PhD looked at cyclists' behaviour within the London Cycle Hire Scheme, working collaboratively with Transport for London. His subsequent Post Doctoral position applied visual analytics crime analysis as part of the EC-funded VALCRI project.

Ali Ramathan was a PhD student looking at user perception of spatial treemaps for cartographic layout. He has presented his work at venues including GISRUK and the International Cartographic Association.

Sarah Goodwin completed her PhD in 2015 using geovisualization to inform understanding of domestic energy consumption. She has worked with energy providers and modellers and presented her work at venues including IEEE Infovis and GISRUK.

Christos Gatzidis completed his PhD in 2010 where he was examining the role of non-photorealistic rendering of 3D models for urban navigation. He currently works at the University of Bournemouth as a senior lecturer in Creative Technology.

David Lloyd completed his PhD in 2011 in which he examined human centred interfaces for evidence based policy. He evaluated geovisualization prototypes and their effect on the decision making process.

David Mountain gained his PhD in 2005 in which he developed predictive models of movement based on mobile trajectory records. He has since worked as a lecturer in the giCentre and has set up his own GI transport consultancy.

Stelios Papakonstantinou graduated with a PhD in 2011. He used agent technologies mobile location based services to design and develop context-aware services on mobile devices.

Johannes Liem did his PhD here on investigating the efficacy of geo-spatial flow visualization techniques for digital storytelling. He co-authored and presented previous work at international journals and conferences.

Odun Fadahunsi was a part-time PhD student whose research interests include Petri nets, Network and Data Science as applied in the context of decision making in Economics, Accounting, Finance and Risk Management domains.

Phong Nguyen was a Research Associate at the giCentre. His research mainly focuses on the design and application of interactive visualizations to make sense of complex datasets.

Wouter Meulemans was a Research Fellow here in 2016 under the Marie-Curie fellowship scheme. He is now Assistant Professor at TU Eindhoven, where combines algorithms and computational geometry with visualization.

Alex Kachkaev completed his PhD in 2015 using data from photographic archives to inform pedestrian navigation routing algorithms. He has presented his work at national and international venues including UTSG and IEEE Infovis.

Susanne Bleisch completed her PhD in 2011. Her thesis examined  how effectively abstract data graphics can be integrated with 3D virtual environments. She now works at the University of Melbourne as a research fellow.

Ian Greatbatch completed his PhD in 2009. He was investigating ways in which digital terrain models can be used to assess mountain prominence. He now works as a lecturer in GIS at Kingston University.

Cristina Arciniegas Lopez gained her PhD in 2007 in which  she examined co-authorship networks to characterise GI Science communities. She has since worked at the University of Reading as a researcher.

Mithileysh (Mit) Sathiyanarayanan was a PhD student whose research interests include information visualization, human computer interaction and social informatics.

Rafael Henkin was a Research Associate at the giCentre, following his PhD here. His research is focused on the combination of interactive multimodal techniques with ML/AI techniques. He is currently interested in understanding the benefits of the use of interactive visualisations and natural language in AI explainability scenarios.

Donia Badawood completed her PhD in 2015 examining the way models of narrative construction can be applied to data visualization. She has presented her work a number of venues including IEEE InfoVis and GISRUK

Iain Dillingham completed his PhD investigating how visualization can assist understanding spatial uncertainty in crowdsourced crisis information. He has presented his work at IEEE Infovis, GeoViz Hamburg and GISRUK.

Naz Khalili-Shavarini gained her PhD in 2012 where she developed and evaluated visualization methods for exploring geography of social networks in photo sharing archives. She now works as an analyst for Unisys.

Stephanie Marsh graduated with a PhD in 2008. She performed user-centred evaluations of geovisualization in research and education contexts. She currently works as a UX consultant at Bunnyfoot.

Vlasios Voudouris completed his PhD in 2008. in which he developed a new object-field model for representing geographic semantics and uncertainty . He is now a lecturer at London Metropolitan University.