Noeska Smit was born in 1983 in Heenvliet, the Netherlands. She became a licensed radiographer in Rotterdam in 2005. Afterwards, she obtained her master’s in computer science with a minor in biomedical engineering in 2012 at the Delft University of Technology. At the same institute, she defended her PhD thesis on interactive visualization for anatomy education and surgical planning in 2016.
She moved to Bergen, Norway, to join the visualization research group at the Department of Informatics as a tenure-track Associate Professor in medical visualization in 2016. Since 2019, she holds a position as a senior researcher at the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization (MMIV) center at the Department of Radiology of the Haukeland University Hospital in Norway. She is part of the leadership team at this interdisciplinary center.
She leads a team researching multimodal medical data visualization. In her interdisciplinary research, she works on novel interactive visualization approaches for improved exploration, analysis, and communication of multimodal medical imaging data. Her work has been awarded with a Dirk Bartz prize for Visual Computing in Medicine in 2019 and the Best Interdisciplinary Presentation Award, awarded at the Computer Graphics International conference in 2020.
