I am founder of the IDA GmbH and former postdoc at the Digital Media Lab of the University of Bremen. IDA is a service that allows anyone to create an intelligent chatbot without having to be an expert in artificial intelligence.

In 2003 I started studying Computer Science at the University of Bremen where I completed my 'Diplom' degree in 2009. From 2009 until 2012 I was a doctoral fellow in the graduate school Advances in Digital Media funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS).

From 2013 to 2020 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI) together with Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka and received my PhD in 2015. I did research in the fields of Navigation, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Entertainment Computing (EC).

My doctoral thesis, titled Navigation in the Real World and in Virtual Worlds, aimed at taking advantage of modern input technology to design natural and intuitive interaction concepts for navigation in the real world and navigation in virtual worlds. It was supervised by Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka from the University of Bremen and Prof. Dr. Johannes Schöning from Hasselt University, now University of St. Gallen.

For details on my work have a look at my research and teaching activities. If you have further questions contact me via email or phone.