Prof. Miriah Meyer, SimTech Argyris Visiting Professor 2025, visited SimTech on 21 May for an exchange with early-career researchers and this year’s Honorary Argyris Lecture.
The Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science welcomed Prof. Miriah Meyer from Linköping University as SimTech Argyris Visiting Professor 2025. The visiting professorship recognizes internationally outstanding researchers whose work makes significant contributions to simulation technology and closely related fields.
Meyer is a leading researcher in data visualization, human-computer interaction, and exploratory data analysis. Her work combines visualization research with design-oriented and human-centered approaches. By developing interactive visual analysis tools, she supports researchers in making sense of complex data across a wide range of fields, including biology, public health, the humanities, and the social sciences. Her research therefore connects closely to SimTech’s interest in communicating, interpreting, and making accessible complex simulation results.
During her visit on 21 May 2026, Meyer met with doctoral researchers in an informal Meet & Greet titled “Finding your path in academia.” The session offered early-career researchers the opportunity to discuss academic career paths, science communication, visibility, networking, and personal career decisions in a smaller setting. Rather than a formal talk, the format encouraged open conversation about Meyer’s own career path, her experiences as a professor, and how researchers can shape their individual journeys in academia.
Later that afternoon, Meyer gave the Honorary Argyris Lecture titled “Data As _______: Exploring the Plurality of Data in Visualization Research.” In her lecture, she invited the audience to rethink what data is, how it is created, and how different understandings of data shape visualization research and scientific practice. The talk highlighted how visualization can open new ways of engaging with data and encouraged a critical reflection on data-driven research.
Meyer’s academic career reflects her broad scientific impact. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University before joining the University of Utah’s School of Computing and the Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute. Since 2021, she has been a professor in the Department of Science and Technology at Linköping University.
Her contributions have received wide international recognition. Among other distinctions, Meyer has been awarded the IEEE VIS 10-year Test of Time Paper Award, the University of Utah Distinguished Alumni Award, a TED Fellowship, a PopTech Science Fellowship, and a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship. She has also been named one of MIT Technology Review’s TR35 top young innovators.
The Argyris Visiting Professorship provides an opportunity to strengthen the exchange between SimTech and the international visualization community. Meyer’s expertise is particularly relevant for current questions in simulation science, where increasingly complex models, data-integrated simulations, and large-scale results require new ways of exploration, interpretation, and communication.
With Miriah Meyer’s visit, SimTech continued this exchange across different formats — from discussions with doctoral researchers to the public Honorary Argyris Lecture — and further expanded its interdisciplinary perspective on simulation technology, visualization, and research communication.