Turning Data Into Insights
I lead the data visualization and online platform work for our Climate and Ocean programs for the World Resources Institute, a leading global environmental think tank.
I am overseeing the management Climate Watch, Power Explorer and Ocean Data.
What I do
Tools & Visuals
I work with companies, governments and researchers to develop online visualizations that turn data into actionable tools and beautiful visuals.
My Work
Power Explorer
The first global open data base of power plants to help citizens, companies, and investors track their climate, water, and air pollution impacts.
Data Visualizations
Interactive visualizations that show clear insights from complex data on global emissions and the history of climate change.
Planetary Boundaries Modeling
Together with the Stockholm Resilience Center, I visualized the global environmental limits in which human development can strive and visualizing the connections between those limits.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Interactive visualization published with The Guardian that show the past, present, and future of carbon dioxide emission.
Organizations
World Resources Institute, USA
Leading WRI’s climate and ocean data work, developing leading data platforms in partnership with 100s national governments, International Organizations, NGOs, universities and private sector companies.
Stockholm Resilience Center, Sweden
Improvement of the scientific underpinning of the Planetary Boundaries concept.
ARTE G.E.I.E., France
Video publishing, software development, data processing and user experience design at Franco-German public television station ARTE.
Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Science for Sustainable Development at Linköping University, Sweden
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany
Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association, Egypt
Field work and data collection on marine mammals and development of of research infrastructure in collaboration with local NGO.
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany
Implementation of video compression algorithms at the Department Multimedia Real-time Systems.