Hi, i am an interdisciplinary researcher blending design and technology.
About me
Over the past 15 years, I have worked in both design agencies and academia, driven by a passion for understanding how humans interact with their environment through technology.
I am currently serving as a professor of Interaction Design Technologies at the Institute of Industrial Design, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. My research and teaching span the breadth of Interaction Design, exploring how digital and physical spaces converge, with a particular focus on XR and intelligent systems.
Alongside this role, I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Group at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, where I also completed my PhD (Dr.-Ing.). My dissertation is available [here].
I actively contribute to the HCI and XR research community through conference organization, peer review, and program committee service. My activities include organizing the XR Health Workshop series at IEEE VR, serving on program committees for venues such as IEEE VR, ACM VRST, Eurographics VCBM, and IEEE ISMAR, and reviewing for leading conferences and journals including ACM CHI, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR, ACM VRST, Virtual Reality, and the International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction.
Honors & Awards
I am grateful that my work in Interaction Design, HCI, and XR has been recognized through the following distinctions:
🏆 Klaus Erich Pollmann Research Award – Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Academic Ceremony, 2025
🏆 Best Dissertation Award – Faculty of Computer Science, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Academic Ceremony, 2025
🏆 Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences – EuroVis 2025, Luxembourg
🏆 Best Paper Award – ACM VRST 2024, Trier, Germany
🏅 Best Short Paper Honorable Mention – EG VCBM 2024, Magdeburg, Germany
🏅 Best Poster Honorable Mention – IEEE ISMAR 2023, Sydney, Australia
🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention – IEEE VR 2023, Shanghai, China
🏆 Best Presentation (1st Place) & 🏅 Best Project (3rd Place) – 2nd Medical Augmented Reality Summer School 2021, University Hospital Balgrist & Technical University of Munich
🏅 Worldwide Touchless Interaction Contest, 2nd Place – Ultraleap Limited 2020, Bristol, UK
🏅 IIIDaward (3rd Place) – High-Performance 2018, Vienna, Austria