Konstantyn Kucher earned his doctoral degree from Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, with a thesis titled “Sentiment and Stance Visualization of Textual Data for Social Media ” in 2019. He received a BS in 2010 and MS in 2010, both in computer science from Odessa National Polytechnic University. Since 2022, he is a senior lecturer/associate professor at Linköping University. His research interest lies in information visualization and visual analytics, especially text visualization, network and temporal data visualization, and applications in digital humanities, social sciences, and information science.
Kostiantyn Kucher is currently co-supervising 4 PhD students. A trademark of his work is his dedication to provide continuous overviews of the state of the art in several subfields of visualization through websites on text visualizations, sentiment visualizations, visual analytics for natural language processing and text mining tasks, explainable AI, biological visualizations, and chatbot avatars.
He has an excellent publication record with around 70 articles, many of them in top journals and conferences. His role in the European research community is underlined by several publications in the Computer Graphics Forum. Since 2022, he serves as a member of the EuroVis full paper program committee and he was recognized as best reviewer for EuroVis 2023. He was selected as EuroVis ‘25 Posters and Demos Ch-Chair as well as EuroVis ‘24 Poster Co-Chair. His engagement in the international community is also underlined by serving as general co-chair for Graph Drawing ‘25, and associate chair for IVAPP ‘25 and IVAPP ‘24.
Through his outstanding research and leadership Kostiantyn Kucher serves as a role model for early career researchers and EuroVis is very pleased to announce him as the winner of the EuroVis Early Career Researcher Award 2025, in recognition of his outstanding contributions in text, network, and temporal data visualization, with applications in digital humanities, social sciences and information science.