Michael Burch studied computer science and mathematics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He recieved his PhD from the University of Trier in 2010 in the fields of information visualization and visual analytics. After 8 years of having been a PostDoc in the Visualization Research Center (VISUS) in Stuttgart, he moved to the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) as an assistant professor for visual analytics. From October 2020 he works as a lecturer in visualization at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur, Switzerland. Michael Burch is in many international program committees and published more than 200 conference papers and journal articles in the field of visualization. His main interests are in information visualization, visual analytics, eye tracking, and data science.