Katy Börner

Katy Börner (born 1967 in Leipzig, Germany) is an engineer, scholar, author, educator, and speaker specializing in data analysis and visualization, particularly in the areas of science and technology (S&T) studies and biomedical applications. Based out of Indiana University, Bloomington, Börner is the Victor Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering & Information Science in the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering and the Department of Information and Library Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and a member of the Core Cognitive Science Faculty. She has also held the position of visiting professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2012–2013), a visiting professor and Mercator Fellow in User-Centered Social Media, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg–Essen, Duisburg, Germany (2015–2018), a visiting scientist, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France (Jan–May 2014), a Humboldt Fellow at Dresden University of Technology, Germany (2017–2019), and a Stiftung Charité Awardee & Visiting Fellow.

Börner is the founding director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, an organization dedicated to the study, development, and promotion of tools and services for the analysis and visualization of large-scale networks, particularly in the areas of biomedical, social, and behavioral science, physics, and technology. She is also the curator of the international ''Places & Spaces: Mapping Science'' exhibit, a collection of science maps and macroscope tools that seeks to educate the general public about science mapping and empower individuals to create their own data visualizations.

In 2015, she was appointed to a two-year term as member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Data Advisory Council. Since October 2018, she has served as a Trustee of the [https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/ Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)], [https://mathinstitutes.org/ NSF Math Institute] at UCLA. Since 2023, Börner is a CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human Co-Director. Provided by Wikipedia