{"id":17214,"date":"2021-12-16T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=17214"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:11:37","slug":"dr-benjamin-bach","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/gentest.cahss.ed.ac.uk\/dev-peacerep\/profile\/dr-benjamin-bach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Benjamin Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Benjamin Bach<\/strong> is a Reader in Design Informatics and Data Visualization at the University of Edinburgh. His research designs and investigates interactive information visualization interfaces to help people explore, communicate, and understand data.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2017, Benjamin worked as a postdoc at Harvard University (<a href=\"https:\/\/vcg.seas.harvard.edu\/\">Visual Computing Group<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/marvl.infotech.monash.edu\/\">Monash University<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inria.fr\/en\/content\/view\/full\/4829\">Microsoft-Research Inria Joint Centre<\/a>. Benjamin was a visiting researcher at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research in 2015. 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