Dr Amy Griffin is a geographer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra where she is an expert in Geographic Information Systems and the visualisation of spatial and temporal data. She is the co-chair of the International Cartography Association's Commission on Cognitive Visualisation. Her publications include papers in journals such as The Journal of Maps, IEEE Transactions in Visualisation and Computer Graphics, Kartographische Nachrichten, Environment and Planning A, Cartographica, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, and Health and Place. She has also published in the History of Cartography, Volume 6.