Kai Lawonn was born in 1985 in Berlin, Germany. He received the diploma in mathematics in 2011 (minor in physics) and a Ph.D. in 2014 for a thesis on illustrative visualization on medical data sets from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg. In 2015 he moved to Koblenz where he become a Junior professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau for Medical Visualization.
In 2019 he moved to Jena, Germany, where he is now a full professor for Visualization and Explorative Data Analysis. His work on visualization was awarded with the Best Ph.D. Award 2016 of the Eurographics Awards Programme, the EuroVis Young Researcher Award in 2020, and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 2021.
His research interests include vessel visualization, exploration of blood flow, illustrative visualization, and since recently visualization of machine learning techniques.
