Holger Theisel is a full professor for Visual Computing at the University of Magdeburg (Germany). He received his M.S. (1994), Ph.D. (1996) and habilitation (2001) degrees from the University of Rostock (Germany) where he studied Computer Science (1989 - 1994) and worked as a research and teaching assistant (1995 - 2001). He spent 12 months (1994 - 1995) as a visiting scholar at Arizona State University (USA), and 6 months as a guest lecturer at ICIMAF Havana (Cuba). 2002 - 2006 he was a member of the Computer Graphics group at MPI Informatik Saarbrücken (Germany). 2006-2007 he was a professor for Computer Graphics at Bielefeld University (Germany). Since October 2007 he is at the University of Magdeburg. His research interests focus on scientific visualization as well as on geometric modelling, geometry processing, information visualization and Visual Analytics. He co-authored more than 75 papers in the top journals in the field and received several best paper and honorable mention awards. Among others, he served as Paper Co-Chair EuroVis 2009, General Chair of the IEEE VIS 2018 conference in Berlin, Co-Chair of the IEEE VIS Executive Committee 2021-2023, Paper Co-Chair PacificVis 2021, Short Papers Co-Chair Eurographics 2021, and as Overall Paper Chair for IEEE VIS 2024-2025.