Media informatics and media technology in the bachelor's degree programmes "Expanded Realities", "Interactive Media...
Pictures" and in the master's degree programme "Leadership in the Creative Industries". Main areas of research: Expanded Realities, Virtual Classroom, 360-degree cinema in VR/MR, light field cameras, transmedia and media-based cultural education.
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Representative for the Middle East
Prof. Dr. Paul Grimm is Professor for Extended Reality at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Before he has been Professor of Computer...
Graphics at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences (Dean 2013-2016) and Erfurt University of Applied Sciences. After studying computer science and physics at TU Darmstadt, he worked as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics. From 1997 to 1998 he was a visiting scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Urbana-Champaign, USA. From 2009 to 2010 he did a research semester at Daimler Protics GmbH in the Virtual Engineering & Consulting division. The research interests of Prof. Dr. Paul Grimm are simplification of the creation process for Virtual and Augmented Reality and he has pursued this in various national and international projects. Especially, he is researching how AI technology can be used for virtual environments.
Diploma from the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Department of Animation Freelance 3D (technical) artist since 2004 Professor of Technical Art...
at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences since 2014 Filmography Screenplay/Director: 1999: Wilbert the Worm (3rd place Animago 1999, category Education/Animation/Short Film)
2004: Anderswo – Die Krawallah (1st place Animago 2004, category Education/Animation/Series) Filmography 3D Artist (selection): 2006: Adolf, ich hock in meinem Bonker (Director: Felix Gönnert) 2007: Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (Director: Bully Herbig)
2009: Lilli the Witch (Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky) 2009: 2012 (Director: Roland Emmerich) 2010: The Ghostwriter (Director: Roman Polanski) 2011: The Immortals (Director: Tarsem Singh)
2012: Cloud Atlas (directed by A. and L. Wachowski, Tom Tykwer) 2013: Snow Piercer (directed by Bong Joon Ho) 2014: Maya the Bee (directed by Alexs Stadermann) 2015: Mara and the Firebringer (directed by Tommy Krappweis)
Online communication and organisational communication
Pia Sue Helferich is a professor of online communication, specialising in organisational communication, at Darmstadt University of Applied...
Sciences. She has worked on various projects and in companies, focusing on online communication, public relations and adult education. Her work also concentrates on lifelong learning, digital transformation and communication in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Director of commercials, music videos and experimental films with extensive professional experience in camera work and editing. Commercials for...
Nike, BMW, HP, T-Com, Seat, Fiat, Sony, O2, VW Film productions Radical Media, Savilleproductions and Stink, as well as nationally for Neue Sentimental Production and Triggerhappy Productions.
Head of programme
Design of interactive media systems, usability, user experience
Andrea Krajewski is a professor in the Media Department at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Her teaching area covers the design of...
interactive media systems at the interface between service, hardware and software. Her research area is the design of networked intelligent living environments and the question of user autonomy. As a member of the project-mo.de research team, she worked on networked, augmented mobility. Supported by hessian.AI, she most recently conducted research on the development of user experiences for AI-supported applications. Her current field of activity is the formulation of design as an experiential field of experimentation for shaping desirable futures. As a member of ThingsCon (https://thingscon.org) and the Council for Digital Ecology (https://ratfuerdigitaleoekologie.org/de/), she advocates for the sustainable, social and human-centred use of technology.
Anna Sophie Kuschezki is a research assistant at the Institute for Communication and Media (ikum) at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences...
and a lecturer in the Online Journalism programme. Since 2025, she has been pursuing a cooperative doctorate at the junior professorship "Digital Economies" in the Media Management department at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
Florian Meißner is Professor of Digital Publishing at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. He teaches in the bachelor's degree...
in Online Journalism and Online Communication and in the master's degree programme in Media, Technology and Society. In addition to journalism and digital media, his research focuses primarily on risk and crisis communication. He currently heads the EU-funded research network "AlertHub" on warning communication in the event of disasters and is a board member of the International Crisis and Risk Communication Research Association (ICRCA).
Public relations with a focus on online communication
Thomas Pleil is a professor of public relations with a focus on online PR. He has many years of experience in journalism, PR agencies and PR...
management at a university. His work focuses on online communication, social media, lifelong learning and sustainability communication.
Pleil established the Online Communication (B.Sc.) degree programme. He is also spokesperson for the board of directors of the Institute for Communication and Media (ikum) and spokesperson for the Research Centre for Digital Communication and Media Innovation (dkmi). In R&D, he is involved in the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Zukunftskultur (SME Digital Centre for Future Culture) and the System Innovation for Sustainable Development project, among others. Personal website
Head of programme
Professor for Technology Development in Online Communication
I am Sebastian Pranz - sociologist, media developer, and university lecturer. My practical and theoretical work deals with digital public...
spheres, new narrative forms, data, and automation. Some of my recent topics of research include the imaginaries of automated driving, the platformization of news-rooms, and networks. Besides, I'm personally interested in exploring methods from data sciences and digital humanities. Since 2021 I teach technology development in online communications at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (H_DA) for the study programs Media, Technology & Society (MA) and Online Communications (BA).
Lara Pujol is a doctoral candidate whose research focuses on transformative learning at universities. She teaches in the online communication...
programme and works as a project assistant at the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Zukunftskultur, where she supports companies in developing sustainable corporate cultures.
Lars Rademacher has been a professor in the Media Department since 2014 and has been teaching corporate and sustainability communication since...
2022. He teaches in the Online Communication (BSc) degree programme and in the international Media, Technology & Society (MSc) master's programme. He is also head of the Doctoral Centre for Sustainability Sciences (PZNW) and a member of the Research Centre for Digital Communication and Media Innovation (DKMI). Previously, he headed the Media Management programme at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Munich and conducts research on NGO communication, stakeholder management, corporate social responsibility and organisational learning, among other topics.
Before his academic career, Rademacher spent six years as a consultant, head of communications at the phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg and press spokesman at BASF.
From April 2013 to September 2013, Torsten Schäfer was a research assistant at the IKuM at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Green...
Journalism project) on a 50 per cent basis and also served as a substitute professor for journalism and text production. Prior to that, he worked for ten years as an environmental and science journalist, six of which as a print and online editor for the international edition of GEO (full-time) and Deutsche Welle (freelance). Since 2005, he has been a lecturer in continuing education with a focus on research, text and specialist journalism (environment/sustainability; European Union), including at the University of Lüneburg in the study programme - Sustainability and Journalism -
Stefan Schmunk is Professor of Information and Library Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. His teaching and research focus on...
digital research infrastructures, open science and research data, particularly in the humanities and cultural sciences. His focus is on sustainable strategies in research data management and on developing national and European initiatives to establish research infrastructures. He is Dean of the Media Department and Research Data Management Officer at h_da.
Andreas Vlasic is a professor of online branding and brand management. He has many years of experience in communications research and...
communications consulting. His work focuses on strategic marketing communications, media change and digital platforms, scientific theory and empirical social research.
Prof.-Dr.-Ing Martin Wessner – Professor of Web Literacy in the Media Department at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences since 2014. He...
teaches primarily in the Online Communication programme: web literacy, multimedia technology, web development, didactic design, media design/photography/image processing.
Research interests: web literacy/media literacy, e-learning/CSCL, visual communication. Previous professional positions: Head of Data Analysis and Ambient Technologies, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern Head of Experience Management, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern Professor of Knowledge Management, LMU Munich (substitute)
Head of Cooperative Systems and E-Learning, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt Research Associate, GMD IPSI, Darmstadt Research Associate, Institute of Educational Science, RWTH Aachen University Studies in Computer Science (Diploma, Doctorate) and Vocational Education (Master of Arts), TH/TU Darmstadt
