Summary
Matthias Stahl is a data journalist, scientist and visualization designer who currently leads Data Visualizations at DER SPIEGEL. Over eight years across academia and media, he has combined bioinformatics, data science and UI design to turn complex data into meaningful visuals, from precision medicine to production-process control interfaces. He has held leadership roles at DER SPIEGEL's Graphics Desk, founded higsch, and contributed to data visualization at Karolinska Institutet and Technische Universität München, as well as in early startups. He is a hands-on front-end developer, fluent in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and D3.js, with experience in Vue.js and Svelte, and proficient in R, Python and SQL. Based in Hamburg, Germany, he also shares knowledge as a guest lecturer at HAW Hamburg and brings an entrepreneurial, cross-disciplinary approach to storytelling with data.
9 years of coding experience