Fernando V. Paulovich is an Associate Professor in Visual Analytics for Data Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands. Before moving to the Netherlands, he was a Professor and Canada Research Chair at Dalhousie University, Canada (2017-2022), and an associate professor at University of São Paulo, Brazil (2009-2017). He has been researching information visualization and visual analytics, focusing on integrating machine learning and visualization tools and techniques, taking advantage of the automation provided by machine learning approaches, and user knowledge through interactions with visual representations to help people understand and take advantage of complex and massive data collections. In the past years, his primary focus has been on designing and developing visual analytics techniques for the general public to advance the concept of data democratization, promoting unconstrained access to data analysis and widening the analytic capability of lay users in transforming data into insights.