Životopis

Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

• doc. RNDr. Kozlikova Barbora, Ph.D.

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Visual Computing, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

Function, current position

• Associate Professor

Education and academic qualifications

• 12/2011 Ph.D. degree in Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. Thesis topic: Visualization techniques for static and dynamic protein molecules and their channels.
• 2006 Master’s degree in Informatics (Mgr.), Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. Thesis topic: Interactive visualization of molecular models.
• 2004 Bachelor’s degree in Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. Thesis topic: Animation techniques.

Professional experience

• since 09/2017, Associate professor, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University.
• 07/2012 - 08/2017, Assistant professor, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University.
• 01/2012 - 06/2012, Java programmer and analyst in Home Credit International: Design and development of enterprise applications.

Teaching activities

• Visualization, Computer Graphics API, Computational Geometry Project, Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction.

Research activities

• Research interests in visualization and visual analysis with application in diverse fields, including biochemistry, medicine, geography, security, education, and others.

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• 2008-2009: five-month research stay at the Hasso-Plattner Institut at the University of Potsdam
• 2014-2015: six-month research stay at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, TU Wien
• 2015, 2016: four short-term research stays in the Visualization Group at the University of Bergen, Norway
• 2017: one-month research stay at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, TU Wien
• 2008/10/01 – 2009/03/31: University of Potsdam, Potsdam, DEU

Other academic activities, research projects, grants

• 2016-2023: member of the Academic Senate at FI MU
  Ongoing and past projects:
• Czech Science Foundation project ChromeXplore: Interactive visual exploration of chromatin (GA23-05651S)
• Společnost v pohybu: příležitosti a rizika nových forem mobility pro českou společnost a ekonomiku (CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008717)
• Czech Science Foundation project Methods of Identification and Visualization of Tunnels for Flexible Ligands in Dynamic Proteins (GA17-07690S)
• Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic project Complex analysis and Visualization of Heterogeneous Big Data (BV III/1-VS)
• International DFG-GACR project Visual Analysis of Protein-Ligand Interactions (GC18-18647J)

Non-university activities

• Member of the GAČR evaluation panel (2020-2024)
• Co-chair of the IEEE VIS 2025 conference, Vienna
• Co-chair of the Bio+MedVis Challenge workshop at IEEE VIS 2023, 2024
• Chair of the IEEE VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award in 2023, 2024
• Co-chair of the VIZBI 2022, 2023, and 2024 conference
• Co-organizer of the Bio+Med+Vis Spring School (online), 2021, 2022, https://biomedvis.github.io/
• General chair at VCBM 2019, Brno
• General chair at EuroVis 2018, Brno
• Full paper chair at VCBM 2019, Brno
• Short paper chair at VCBM 2018, Granada
• Short paper chair at PacificVis 2020 and 2021, Tianjin, China
• Session chair at EuroVis 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023
• Publicity chair at VCBM 2021, Paris
• Poster co-chair at IEEE VIS 2022
• Steering committee member of EuroVis (2019-2025)
• Steering committee member of VCBM (2019-2024)
• Member of the Eurographics Workshop Board (since 2020)
• Elected member of the Eurographics Executive Board (since 2021)
• IPC member of IEEE VIS, EuroVis, EG VCBM, IEEE PacificVis
• Associate editor of Computers & Graphics (since 2019)
• Guest editor of Special Section on VCBM 2019 in Computers & Graphics
• Guest editor of Special Section on VCBM 2020 in Computers & Graphics
• Specialty Chief Editor of Data Visualization Section in Frontiers in Bioinformatics (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Reviewing journal papers (IEEE TVCG, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Computers & Graphics, Journal of Visualization, Nucleic Acids Research, The Visual Computer, and others) and conference papers (IEEE VIS, EG EuroVis, EUROGRAPHICS, BioVis, VCBM, SIBGRAPI, IEEE PacificVis, and others)
• Reviewing PhD theses (Pedro Hermosilla – UPC Barcelona, Johannes Sorger – TU Wien, Thomas Ortner – TU Wien, Jakub Szkandera - ZCU Plzen, Robin Skanberg - Linköping University, Mark Keller - Harvard)
• Invited talk at the GGMM 2025 (Group of Graphism and Molecular Modelling) conference, 11. 6. 2025
• Invited talk at the CESCG 2024 conference, 3. 5. 2024
• Invited talk at the 4D Nucleome conference in Milan, 9. 5. 2023
• Invited talk at VIZBI 2021 (online), 25. 3. 2021
• Invited talk at the online conference organized by Grenoble Alliance for Integrated Structural and Cell Biology in France, 8. 6. 2021
• Invited talk at MolVA workshop (collocated with EuroVis 2021), 14. 6. 2021
• Keynote speaker at the TrustVis workshop (co-located with EuroVis 2019), Porto, 3. 6. 2019
• Invited talk at the Cell Visualization Summit in KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 30. 10. 2019
• Participating in Dagstuhl seminars (5x participated), co-author of the book Foundations of Data Visualization, coming from the Dagstuhl seminar (released in 2020 by Springer).
• Participating in Shonan meetings (3x participated, in February 2020, co-organizer of Shonan meeting, entitled Formalizing Biological and Medical Visualization).
• Co-organizer of the Dagstuhl seminar in November 2023.

Most significant professional accomplishments

• 2024: Honorable mention best paper award at the IEEE VIS 2024 conference
• 2024: Best paper award at the VISSOFT 2024 conference
• 2019: Best paper award at the VCBM 2019 workshop
• 2018: Honorable mention best paper award at the IEEE VIS 2018 conference
• 2017: Honorable mention best paper award at the IEEE VIS 2017 conference
• 2016: Best paper award at the BioVis 2016 conference

Major publications

• POKOJNÁ, Hana; Tobias ISENBERG; Stefan BRUCKNER; Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ a Laura GARRISON. The Language of Infographics: Toward Understanding Conceptual Metaphor Use in Scientific Storytelling. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. United States of America, 2025, roč. 31, č. 1, s. 371-381. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456327. URL info
• OPÁLENÝ, Filip; Pavol ULBRICH; Joan PLANAS IGLESIAS; Jan BYŠKA; Jan ŠTOURAČ; David BEDNÁŘ; Katarína FURMANOVÁ a Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ. Visual Support for the Loop Grafting Workflow on Proteins. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. United States: IEEE Computer Society, 2025, roč. 31, č. 1, s. 580-590. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456401. URL info
• FURMANOVÁ, Katarína; Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ; Thomas HÖLLT; M. Eduard GRÖLLER; Bernhard PREIM a Renata Georgia RAIDOU. BioMedical Visualization: Past Work, Current Trends, and Open Challenges. Neuveden: Springer, 2025, 161 s. ISBN 978-3-031-66788-6. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66789-3. URL info
• SCHÄFER, Marco; Nicolas BRICH; Jan BYŠKA; Sérgio Manuel MARQUES; David BEDNÁŘ; Philipp THIEL; Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ a Michael KRONE. InVADo: Interactive Visual Analysis of Molecular Docking Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE Computer Society, 2024, roč. 30, č. 4, s. 1984-1997. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3337642. URL info
• ULBRICH, Pavol; Manuela WALDNER; Katarína FURMANOVÁ; Sérgio Manuel MARQUES; David BEDNÁŘ; Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ a Jan BYŠKA. sMolBoxes: Dataflow Model for Molecular Dynamics Exploration. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. United States: IEEE Computer Society, 2023, roč. 29, č. 1, s. 581-590. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209411. URL info
• KUŤÁK, David; Matias Nicolás SELZER; Jan BYŠKA; María Luján GANUZA; Ivan BARIŠIĆ; Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ a Haichao MIAO. Vivern – A Virtual Environment for Multiscale Visualization and Modeling of DNA Nanostructures. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2022, roč. 28, č. 12, s. 4825-4838. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3106328. URL info
• KOUŘIL, David; Tobias ISENBERG; Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ; Miriah MEYER; Eduard GROELLER a Ivan VIOLA. HyperLabels: Browsing of Dense and Hierarchical Molecular 3D Models. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2021, roč. 27, č. 8, s. 3493-3504. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2020.2975583. URL info
• ZÁKOPČANOVÁ, Kristína; Marko ŘEHÁČEK; Jozef BÁTRNA; Daniel PLAKINGER; Sergej STOPPEL a Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ. Visilant: Visual Support for the Exploration and Analytical Process Tracking in Criminal Investigations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2021, roč. 27, č. 2, s. 881-890. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030356. URL info
• SABANDO, María Virginia; Pavol ULBRICH; Matías SELZER; Jan BYŠKA; Jan MIČAN; Ignacio PONZONI; Axel J. SOTO; María Luján GANUZA a Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ. ChemVA: Interactive Visual Analysis of Chemical Compound Similarity in Virtual Screening. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2021, roč. 27, č. 2, s. 891-901. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030438. URL info
• FURMANOVÁ, Katarína; Adam JURČÍK; Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ; Helwig HAUSER a Jan BYŠKA. Multiscale Visual Drilldown for the Analysis of Large Ensembles of Multi-Body Protein Complexes. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE, 2020, roč. 26, č. 1, s. 843-852. ISSN 1077-2626. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934333. URL info
• JURČÍK, Adam; David BEDNÁŘ; Jan BYŠKA; Sérgio Manuel MARQUES; Katarína FURMANOVÁ; Lukáš DANIEL; Piia Pauliina KOKKONEN; Jan BREZOVSKÝ; Ondřej STRNAD; Jan ŠTOURAČ; Antonín PAVELKA; Martin MANAK; Jiří DAMBORSKÝ a Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ. CAVER Analyst 2.0: Analysis and Visualization of Channels and Tunnels in Protein Structures and Molecular Dynamics Trajectories. Bioinformatics. 2018, roč. 34, č. 20, s. 3586-3588. ISSN 1367-4803. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty386. URL info

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