Professional Profile

09/2022 — today
Assistant Professor - Tenured, Computer Graphics and Visualization, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
05/2020 — 09/2022
Assistant Professor - Tenure Track, Computer Graphics and Visualization, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
09/2018 — 04/2020
Assistant Professor - Tenure Track, Leiden Computational Biology Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
01/2017 — 08/2018
Assistant Professor - Tenure Track (Part Time), Leiden Computational Biology Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
01/2017 — 08/2018
Postdoctoral Fellow (Part Time), Computer Graphics and Visualization, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
05/2014 — 12/2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Graphics and Visualization, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
01/2014 — 02/2015
05/2013 — 12/2013
02/2009 — 02/2010
Researcher, VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria
09/2008 — 01/2009
Research Assistant, Arbeitsgruppe Computergraphik, Universität Koblenz Landau, Koblenz, Germany

Guest Research Stays

05/2020 — today
Guest Researcher, LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
09/2018 — 04/2020
Guest Researcher, Computer Graphics and Visualization, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
07/2013 — 08/2013
Visiting Researcher, Visualization Group, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
07/2012 — 08/2012
Visiting Researcher, SCI Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
06/2012
Visiting Researcher, SimVis GmbH, Vienna, Austria
07/2011 — 08/2011
Visiting Researcher, SCI Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
06/2011
Visiting Researcher, SimVis GmbH, Vienna, Austria
06/2010 — 08/2010
Guest Researcher, VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria

Education

04/2014
Ph.D. Computer Science
Visual Workflows for Oil and Gas Exploration.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA.
Advisor: Markus Hadwiger
Committee Members: Charles D. Hansen, Ibrahim Hoteit, Helmut Pottmann, Ganesh Sundaramoorthi
08/2008
Diplom Informatiker (M.Sc. Computer Science)
Direct Processing of Compressed Volume Data.
Universität Koblenz Landau, Germany.
Advisors: Matthias Raspe, Stephan Müller

Grants & Awards

Grants

Applicant, NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program 2019. Amount awarded in kind in form of one NVIDIA TITAN V GPU.

≈2.000€

Co-applicant as Young Talent, NWO Gravitation 2018 - BRAINSCAPES. Amount indicates the LUMC part of a total of 19.654.000€ for the complete consortium. I am in charge of one PhD student on the LUMC side.

1.997.677€

Co-Applicant, NWO/TTW HTSM 2018 - Project 17126 Visual analytics for 3DOMICS. Amount is granted for several positions at LUMC who partly work under my direction on research and development in VA methodology for spatial single-cell analysis and one PhD student at TU Delft, who I will be co-promoting.

980.000€

Awards & Prizes

VRVis Visual Computing Award. Shared winner with Gaia Pavoni of ISTI-CNR. The VRVis Visual Computing Award highlights outstanding research work from Europe that uses visual computing to create sustainable solutions in line with the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Jury: Dieter Fellner, Ming C. Lin Heidi Schumann, Anders Ynnerman, Anja Appel, Marco Kamiya, Kirsty Rancier.

2.500€

Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award at International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV), Braunschweig, 2023

Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award at IEEE VIS, Sydney, 2023

Best Poster Award at Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM), Vienna, 2022

3rd Prize, Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine (Eurographics Medical Prize), Eurovis, Zurich, 2021

1st Prize, Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine (Eurographics Medical Prize), Eurographics, Genova, 2019

500€

Best Paper Award at Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM), 2017

Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award at the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, Hong Kong, 2013

KAUST Academic Excellence Award, 2013

$10.000

KAUST Academic Excellence Award, 2011

$10.000

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal & Conference Papers

1. Martin Skrodzki, Hunter van Geffen, Nicolas F. Chaves-de-Plaza, Thomas Höllt, Elmar Eisemann, and Klaus Hildebrandt. Accelerating Hyperbolic t-SNE, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3364841
2. Alexander Vieth, Thomas Kroes, Julian Thijssen, Baldur van Lew, Jeroen Eggermont, Soumyadeep Basu, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova, Thomas Höllt, and Boudewijn Lelieveldt. ManiVault: A Flexible and Extensible Visual Analytics Framework for High-Dimensional Data, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2023), 30(2), 2024. Best Paper Honorable Mentions DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326582
3. Alexander Vieth, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova, and Thomas Höllt. Interactions for Seamlessly Coupled Exploration of High-Dimensional Images and Hierarchical Embeddings, In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, pp. 63–70, 2023. Best Paper Honorable Mentions DOI: 10.2312/vmv.20231227
4. Soumyadeep Basu, Jeroen Eggermont, Thomas Kroes, Nikolas Jorstad, Trygve Bakken, Ed Lein, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Thomas Höllt. Cytosplore Simian Viewer: Visual Exploration for Multi-Species Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data, In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine, pp. 111–120, 2023. DOI: 10.2312/vcbm.20231219
5. Faizan Siddiqui, Thomas Höllt, and Anna Vilanova. Interactive Visual Exploration of Region-Based Sensitivities in Fiber Tracking, In Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine, pp. 13–22, 2023. DOI: 10.2312/vcbm.20231208
6. Chang Li, Julian Thijssen, Thomas Kroes, Mitchell de Boer, Tamim Abdelaal, Thomas Höllt, and Boudewijn Lelieveldt. SpaceWalker Enables Interactive Gradient Exploration for Spatial Transcriptomics Data, Cell Reports Methods, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100645
7. Nikolas L. Jorstad, Janet H.T. Song, David Exposito-Alonso, Hamsini Suresh, Nathan Castro-Pacheco, et al. Fenna M. Krienen, Anna Marie Yanny, Jennie Close, Comparative transcriptomics reveals human-specific cortical features, Science, 382, p. eade9516, 2023. DOI: 10.1126/science.ade9516
8. Andra Popa, Francesca Gabrieli, Thomas Kroes, Anna Krekeler, Matthias Alfeld, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, and Thomas Höllt. Visual Analysis of RIS Data for Endmember Selection, In Proceedings of Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage Short Papers, 2022. DOI: 10.2312/gch.20221233
9. Alexander Vieth, Anna Vilanova, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, and Thomas Höllt. Incorporating Texture Information into Dimensionality Reduction for High-Dimensional Images, In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 11–20, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis53943.2022.00010
10. Vincent van Unen, Laura F. Ouboter, Na Li, Mette Schreurs, Tamim Abdelaal, et al. Yvonne Kooy-Winkelaar, Guillaume Beyrend, Thomas Höllt, Identification of a Disease-Associated Network of Intestinal Immune Cells in Treatment-Naive Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.893803
11. Boyd Kenkhuis, Antonios Somarakis, Lynn R.T. Kleindouwel, Willeke M.C. van Roon-Mom, Thomas Höllt, and Louise van der Weerd. Co-expression patterns of microglia markers Iba1, TMEM119 and P2RY12 in Alzheimer's disease, Neurobiology of Disease, 167, p. 105684, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105684
12. Ziena Abdulrahman, Saskia J. Santegoets, Gregor Sturm, Pornpimol Charoentong, Marieke E. Ijsselsteijn, Antonios Somarakis, Thomas Höllt, Francesca Finotello, Zlatko Trajanoski, Sylvia L. van Egmond, Dana A. M. Mustafa, Marij J. P. Welters, Noel F.C.C. De Miranda, and Sjoerd H. van der Burg. Tumor-specific T cells support chemokine-driven spatial organization of intratumoral immune microaggregates needed for long survival, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 10(2), p. e004346, 2022. DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2021-004346
13. Trygve E. Bakken, Nikolas L. Jorstad, Qiwen Hu, Blue B. Lake, Wei Tian, et al. Brian E. Kalmbach, Megan Crow, Rebecca D. Hodge, Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse, Nature, 598, pp. 111–119, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03465-8
14. Marieke E. Ijsselsteijn, Antonios Somarakis, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Thomas Höllt, and Noel F.C.C. De Miranda. Semi-Automated Background Removal Limits Loss of Data and Normalises the Images for Downstream Analysis of Imaging Mass Cytometry Data, Cytometry Part A, 99(12), pp. 1187–1197, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.24480
15. Faizan Siddiqui, Thomas Höllt, and Anna Vilanova. A Progressive Approach for Uncertainty Visualization in Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2021), 40(3), pp. 411–422, 2021. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.14317
16. Antonios Somarakis, Marieke E. Ijsselsteijn, Boyd Kenkhuis, Vincent van Unen, Sietse J. Luk, Frits Koning, Louise van der Weerd, Noel F.C.C. De Miranda, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Thomas Höllt. Visual Analysis of Tissue Images at Cellular Level, In EuroVis 2021 - Dirk Bartz Prize, pp. 1–5, 2021. 3rd Prize, Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine 2021 DOI: 10.2312/evm.20211074
17. Sanne E. de Jong, Vincent van Unen, Mikhael D. Manurung, Koen A. Stam, Jelle J. Goeman, et al. Simon P. Jochems, Thomas Höllt, Nicola Pezzotti, Systems Analysis and Controlled Malaria Infection in Europeans and Africans Elucidate Naturally Acquired Immunity, Nature Immunology, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41590-021-00911-7
18. Boyd Kenkhuis, Antonios Somarakis, Lorraine de Haan, Oleh Dzyubachyk, Marieke E. Ijsselsteijn, Noel F.C.C. De Miranda, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Willeke M. C. van Roon-Mom, Thomas Höllt, and Louise van der Weerd. Iron Loading is a Prominent Feature of Activated Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients, Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 27, Chapter 9, 2021. DOI: 10.1186/s40478-021-01126-5
19. Thomas Ortner, Andreas Walch, Rebecca Nowak, Robert Barnes, Thomas Höllt, and Meister Eduard Gröller. InCorr: Interactive Data-Driven Correlation Panels for Digital Outcrop Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2020), 27(2), 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030409
20. Antonios Somarakis, Marieke E. Ijsselsteijn, Sietse J. Luk, Boyd Kenkhuis, Noel F.C.C. De Miranda, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Thomas Höllt. Visual Cohort Comparison for Spatial Single-Cell Omics-Data, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2020), 27(2), 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030336
21. Antonios Somarakis, Vincent van Unen, Frits Koning, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Thomas Höllt. ImaCytE: Visual Exploration of Cellular Microenvironments for Imaging Mass Cytometry Data, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 27(1), pp. 98–110, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2931299
22. Anita van der Zwan, Vincent van Unen, Guillaume Beyrend, Sandra Laban, Carin van der Keur, Hanneke J. M. Kapsenberg, Thomas Höllt, Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Marie-Louise P. van der Hoorn, Frits Koning, Frans H. J. Claas, Michael Eikmans, and Sebastiaan Heidt. Visualizing Dynamic Changes at the Maternal-Fetal Interface Throughout Human Pregnancy by Mass Cytometry, Frontiers in Immunology, 11(571300), 2020. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.571300
23. Karin de Ruiter, Simon P. Jochems, Dicky L. Tahapary, Koen A. Stam, Marion König, Vincent van Unen, Sandra Laban, Thomas Höllt, Moustapha Mbow, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Frits Koning, Erliyani Sartono, Johannes W. A. Smit, Taniawati Supali, and Maria Yazdanbakhsh. Helminth Infections Drive Heterogeneity in Human Type 2 and Regulatory Cells, Science Translational Medicine, 12(524), p. eaaw3703, 2020. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaw3703
24. Nicola Pezzotti, Julian Thijssen, Alexander Mordvintsev, Thomas Höllt, Baldur van Lew, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova. GPGPU Linear Complexity t-SNE Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2019), 26(1), pp. 1172–1181, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934307
25. Jessica S. Suwandi, Sandra Laban, Kincso Vass, Antoinette Joosten, Vincent van Unen, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Thomas Höllt, Jaap Jan Zwaginga, Tatjana Nikolic, and Bart O.Roep. Multidimensional Analyses of Proinsulin Peptide-specific Regulatory T Cells Induced by Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells, Journal of Autoimmunity, 107, p. 102361, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2019.102361
26. Natasja L de Vries, Vincent van Unen, Marieke E. Ijsselsteijn, Tamim Abdelaal, Ruud van der Breggen, Arantza Farina Sarasqueta, Ahmed Mahfouz, Koen C M J Peeters, Thomas Höllt, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Frits Koning, and Noel F.C.C. De Miranda. High-Dimensional Cytometric Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Reveals Novel Mediators of Antitumour Immunity, Gut, 69, pp. 691–703, 2020. DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318672
27. Andrea Cossarizza, Hyun‐Dong Chang, Andreas Radbruch, Andreas Acs, Dieter Adam, et al. Sabine Adam‐Klages, William W. Agace, Nima Aghaeepour, Guidelines for the Use of Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting in Immunological Studies (Second Edition), European Journal of Immunology, 49(10), pp. 1457–1973, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/eji.201970107
28. Rebecca D Hodge, Trygve E Bakken, Jeremy A Miller, Kimberly A Smith, Eliza R Barkan, et al. Lucas T Graybuck, Jennie L Close, Brian Long, Conserved Cell Types With Divergent Features in Human Versus Mouse Cortex, Nature, 573, pp. 61–68, 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1506-7
29. Thomas Höllt, Anna Vilanova, Nicola Pezzotti, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Helwig Hauser. Focus+Context Exploration of Hierarchical Embeddings, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2019), 38(3), 2019. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13711
30. Thomas Höllt, Nicola Pezzotti, Vincent van Unen, Na Li, Frits Koning, Elmar Eisemann, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Anna Vilanova. Cytosplore: Interactive Visual Single-Cell Profiling of the Immune System, In Proceedings of Eurographics - Short Papers and Medical Prize Awards, 2019. 1st Prize, Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine 2019 DOI: 10.2312/egm.20191032
31. Tamim Abdelaal, Thomas Höllt, Vincent van Unen, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Frits Koning, Marcel Reinders, and Ahmed Mahfouz. CyTOFmerge: Integrating mass cytometry data across multiple panels, Bioinformatics, btz180, 2019. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz180
32. Tamim Abdelaal, Vincent van Unen, Thomas Höllt, Frits Koning, Marcel Reinders, and Ahmed Mahfouz. Predicting cell types in single cell mass cytometry data, Cytometry Part A, 2019. DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.23738
33. Na Li, Vincent van Unen, Tamim Abdelaal, Nannan Guo, Sofya Kasatskaya, et al. Kristin Ladell, James McLaren, Evgeniy Egorov, Memory CD4+ T Cells are Generated in the Human Fetal Intestine, Nature Immunology, 20(3), pp. 301–312, 2019. Cover Image DOI: 10.1038/s41590-018-0294-9
34. Saskia J Santegoets, Vanessa J van Ham, Ilina Ehsan, Pornpimol Charoentong, Chantal L Duurland, Vincent van Unen, Thomas Höllt, Lilly-Ann van der Velden, Sylvia I van Egmond, Kim Kortekaas, Peggy J de Vos van Steenwijk, Mariette IE van Poelgeest, Marij J P Welters, and Sjoerd H van der Burg. The Anatomical Location Shapes the Immune Infiltrate in Tumors of Same Etiology and Impacts Survival, Clinical Cancer Research, 25(1), 2019. DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-1749
35. Guillaume Beyrend, Koen Stam, Thomas Höllt, Ferry Ossendorp, and Ramon Arens. Cytofast: A workflow for visual and quantitative analysis of flow and mass cytometry data to discover immune signatures and correlations, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 16, pp. 435–442, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2018.10.004
36. Sandra Laban, Jessica S. Suwandi, Vincent van Unen, Jos Pool, Joris Wesselius, Thomas Höllt, Nicola Pezzotti, Anna Vilanova, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Bart O. Roep. Heterogeneity of Circulating CD8 T-cells Specific to Islet, Neo-antigen and Virus in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, PLOS one, 13(8), p. e0200818, 2018. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200818
37. Nicola Pezzotti, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Thomas Höllt, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova. Multiscale Visualization and Exploration of Large Bipartite Graphs, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2018), 37(3), pp. 549–560, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13441
38. Na Li, Vincent van Unen, Thomas Höllt, Allan Thompson, Jeroen van Bergen, Nicola Pezzotti, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova, Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Frits Koning. Mass Cytometry Reveals Innate Lymphoid Cell Differentiation Pathways in the Human Fetal Intestine, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 215(5), pp. 1383–1396, 2018. Cover Image DOI: 10.1084/jem.20171934
39. Walid M. Abdelmoula, Nicola Pezzotti, Thomas Höllt, Jouke Dijkstra, Anna Vilanova, Liam A. McDonnell, and Boudewijn Lelieveldt. Interactive Visual Exploration of 3D Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data Using Hierarchical Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Reveals Spatiomolecular Structures at Full Data Resolution, Journal of Proteome Research, 17(3), pp. 1054–1064, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00725
40. Anke Redeker, Ester Remmerswaal, Esme van der Gracht, Suzanne Welten, Thomas Höllt, Frits Koning, Luka Cicin-Sain, Janko Nikolich-Žugich, Ineke ten Berge, Rene van Lier, Vincent van Unen, and Ramon Arens. The Contribution of Cytomegalovirus Infection to Immune Senescence is set by the Infectious Dose, Frontiers in Immunology, 8(1953), 2018. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01953
41. Nicola Pezzotti, Thomas Höllt, Jan van Gemert, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova. DeepEyes: Progressive Visual Analytics for Designing Deep Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2017), 24(1), pp. 98–108, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2744358
42. Thomas Höllt, Nicola Pezzotti, Vincent van Unen, Frits Koning, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Anna Vilanova. CyteGuide: Visual Guidance for Hierarchical Single-Cell Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis 2017), 24(1), pp. 739–748, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2744318
43. Changgong Zhang, Thomas Höllt, Matthan Caan, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova. Comparative Visualization for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Group Study at Multiple Levels of Detail, In Proceedings of Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM), 2017. Best Paper Award DOI: 10.2312/vcbm.20171237
44. Sjoerd Huisman, Baldur van Lew, Ahmed Mahfouz, Nicola Pezzotti, Thomas Höllt, Lieke Michielsen, Anna Vilanova, Marcel Reinders, and Boudewijn Lelieveldt. BrainScope: interactive visual exploration of the spatial and temporal human brain transcriptome, Nucleic Acids Research, gkx046, pp. 1–11, 2017. Selected for a highlight talk @ BioVis 2017 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx046
45. Nicola Pezzotti, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Laurens van der Maaten, Thomas Höllt, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova. Approximated and User Steerable tSNE for Progressive Visual Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(7), pp. 1739–1752, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2016.2570755
46. Vincent van Unen, Thomas Höllt, Nicola Pezzotti, Na Li, Marcel Reinders, Elmar Eisemann, Anna Vilanova, Frits Koning, and Boudewijn Lelieveldt. Visual Analysis of Mass Cytometry Data by Hierarchical Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Reveals Rare Cell Types, Nature Communications, 8(1740), pp. 1–10, 2017. Selected talk @ BioVis/ISMB 2018 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01689-9
47. Changgong Zhang, Matthan Caan, Thomas Höllt, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova. Overview + Detail Visualization for Ensembles of Diffusion Tensors, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2017), 36(3), pp. 121–132, 2017. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13173
48. Nicola Pezzotti, Thomas Höllt, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Elmar Eisemann, and Anna Vilanova. Hierarchical Stochastic Neighbor Embedding, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2016), 35(3), pp. 21–30, 2016. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12878
49. Thomas Höllt, Nicola Pezzotti, Vincent van Unen, Frits Koning, Elmar Eisemann, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Anna Vilanova. Cytosplore: Interactive Immune Cell Phenotyping for Large Single-Cell Datasets, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2016), 35(3), pp. 171–180, 2016. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12893
50. Vincent van Unen, Na Li, Ilse Molendijk, Mine Temurhan, Thomas Höllt, Andrea E. van der Meulen-de Jong, Hein W. Verspaget, M. Luisa Mearin, Chris J. Mulder, Jeroen van Bergen, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Frits Koning. Mass Cytometry of the Human Mucosal Immune System Identifies Tissue- and Disease-Associated Immune Subsets, Immunity, 44(5), pp. 1227–1239, 2016. LUMC Best Article Prize 2016 (non clinical) DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.04.014
51. Thomas Höllt, Fabio M. de Matos Ravanelli, Markus Hadwiger, and Ibrahim Hoteit. Visual Analysis of Reservoir Simulation Ensembles, In Proceedings of Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, pp. 1–4, 2016. DOI: 10.2312/envirvis.20161099
52. Thomas Höllt, Mohamed U. Altaf, Kyle T. Mandli, Markus Hadwiger, Clint N. Dawson, and Ibrahim Hoteit. Visualizing Uncertainties in a Storm Surge Ensemble Data Assimilation and Forecasting System, Natural Hazards, 77(1), pp. 317–336, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1596-y
53. Thomas Höllt, Markus Hadwiger, Omar Knio, and Ibrahim Hoteit. Probability Maps for the Visualization of Assimilation Ensemble Flow Data, In Proceedings of Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences, pp. 43–47, 2015. DOI: 10.2312/envirvis.20151090
54. Thomas Höllt, Ahmed Magby, Peng Zhan, Guoning Chen, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Ibrahim Hoteit, Charles D. Hansen, and Markus Hadwiger. Ovis: A Framework for Visual Analysis of Ocean Forecast Ensembles, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(8), pp. 1114–1126, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2307892
55. Thomas Höllt, Ahmed Magby, Guoning Chen, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Ibrahim Hoteit, Charles D. Hansen, and Markus Hadwiger. Visual Analysis of Uncertainties in Ocean Forecasts for Planning and Operation of Off-Shore Structures, In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 185–192, 2013. Honorable mention for best paper award DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis.2013.6596144
56. Thomas Höllt, Guoning Chen, Charles D. Hansen, and Markus Hadwiger. Extraction and Visual Analysis of Seismic Horizon Ensembles, In Eurographics (short papers), pp. 69–72, 2013. DOI: 10.2312/conf/EG2013/short/069-072
57. Thomas Höllt, Wolfgang Freiler, Fritz M. Gschwantner, Helmut Doleisch, Gabor Heinemann, and Markus Hadwiger. SeiVis: An Interactive Visual Subsurface Modeling Application, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE SciVis), 18(12), pp. 2226–2235, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.259
58. Matthias Schott, Tobias Martin, A.V. Pascal Grosset, Carson Brownlee, Thomas Höllt, Benjamin P. Brown, Sean T. Smith, and Charles D. Hansen. Combined Surface and Volumetric Occlusion Shading, In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 169–176, 2012. Invited for extended version in TVCG DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis.2012.6183588
59. Thomas Höllt, Johanna Beyer, Fritz Michael Gschwantner, Philip Muigg, Helmut Doleisch, Gabor Heinemann, and Markus Hadwiger. Interactive Seismic Interpretation with Piecewise Global Energy Minimization, In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 59–66, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2011.5742373
60. Georg Geier, Thomas Pabel, Daniel Habe, Jördis Rosc, Markus Hadwiger, Thomas Höllt, and Laura Fritz. Computertomographie als zerstörungsfreies Prüfverfahren für Gussteile, Druckguss-Praxis, 7(8), pp. 171–174, 2010.
61. Markus Hadwiger, Laura Fritz, Christof Rezk-Salama, Thomas Höllt, Georg Geier, and Thomas Pabel. Interactive Volume Exploration for Feature Detection and Quantification in Industrial CT Data, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE SciVis), 14(6), pp. 1507–1514, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.147
62. Georg Geier, Markus Hadwiger, Thomas Höllt, Laura Fritz, and Thomas Pabel. Interaktive Exploration und Quantifizierung von Ungänzen in komplexen Bauteilen, Proceedings of Industrielle Computertomografie (CT Tagung Wels), pp. 103–108, 2008.

Books & Bookchapters

63. Daniel Patel, Thomas Höllt, and Markus Hadwiger. Real-Time Algorithms for Visualizing and Processing Seismic and Reservoir Data, In Interactive Data Processing and 3D Visualization of the Solid Earth, Springer, Chapter 2, pp. 45–78, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90716-7_2
64. Faizan Siddiqui, Thomas Höllt, and Anna Vilanova. Uncertainty in the DTI Visualization Pipeline, In Anisotropy Across Fields and Scales, Springer, Chapter 6, pp. 125–148, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56215-1_6

Posters & Abstracts

65. Chang Li, Thomas Höllt, and Boudewijn Lelieveldt. SpaceWalker: a Visual Analytics Approach to Spatial Transcriptomics Data, Poster Presentation, Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine, 2022.
66. Tamim Abdelaal, Ahmed Mahfouz, Thomas Höllt, Vincent van Unen, Frits Koning, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, and Marcel Reinders. Mass Cytometry Marker Panel Extension, Poster Presentation, Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology; Single Cell Omics, Stockholm, Swe, 2017.
67. Thomas Höllt, Vincent van Unen, Nicola Pezzotti, Na Li, Marcel Reinders, Elmar Eisemann, Frits Koning, Anna Vilanova, and Boudewijn Lelieveldt. Interactive Visual Analysis of Mass Cytometry Data by Hierarchical Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Reveals Rare Cell Types, Poster Presentation, Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology; Single Cell Omics, Stockholm, Swe, 2017.
68. Thomas Höllt, Markus Hadwiger, Laura Fritz, Philip Muigg, and Helmut Doleisch. Seismic Horizon Tracing with Diffusion Tensors, Poster Presentation, IEEE Visweek, Atlantic City, NJ, 2009.

Theses

69. Thomas Höllt. Visual Workflows for Oil and Gas Exploration, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2013.
70. Thomas Höllt. Direct Processing of Compressed Volume Data, Universität Koblenz-Landau, 2008.