Prof. Philip Hausmeier is Professor of Experience and Narrative Design in Expanded Realities and coordinator of the Augmented and Virtual Reality Design degree programme. After completing his diploma in communication design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in 2003 and his Master's degree at the Slade School of Art, London, in 2005, he exhibited his work as a freelance artist and designer in international exhibitions at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and MONA in Tasmania, amongst others, and is represented in various collections, such as the Zabludowicz Collection. From 2007 until his appointment at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in 2020, he worked as a lecturer in spatial and XR design at various universities. In 2017, he co-founded Radiance VR, an international online platform for artistic VR experiences. He is also the founder and co-organiser of VRBLN. In 2025/2026, he will focus on his university-funded research project ‘The transfer of Japanese spatial concepts to Extended Reality’.

Prof. Dr Frank Gabler is Professor of Media Technology at the Media Department of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the founding professor of the Augmented and Virtual Reality Design (BA) programme. He studied physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, and obtained his PhD whilst working as a researcher at CERN in Geneva, where he specialised in ultra-relativistic high-energy physics and astrophysics, with a focus on parallel visual computing and real-time environments.

Prior to his appointment at h_da in 2011, he worked as a software architect, technology consultant and founder of a successful company specialising in camera technology, visual computing, virtual reality and usability research. Since the mid-1990s, he has also been active as a director of photography and technical director in film and television.

Prof. Gabler is a member of the German Computer Science Society (Gesellschaft für Computer Science) and played a key role in developing the interdisciplinary field of Expanded Realities at h_da. His research and teaching focus on all areas of Extended Realities (VR, AR, MR), particularly in the contexts of human–machine interaction, virtual learning spaces, cultural heritage, and immersive social environments such as the Metaverse.

Internship Coordinator
International Relations Coordinator
Member of the PhD Centre for Applied Computer Science

Office F18/18.010
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Max-Planck-Str. 2
D-64807 Dieburg
+49 6151 533-69251
paul.grimm.deleteThis@h-da.de
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4189-2642

Teaching and Research Areas
– Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
– Artificial Intelligence for Virtual Environments
– Digital Photography and Photogrammetry
– Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
– Computer Graphics and Games

Publications
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=yJehKOcAAAAJ
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Grimm2

Projects
Future Learning Spaces
Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage
DaF2L: Teaching German as a Foreign Language – Learning German as a Foreign Language

Team and PhD Students
Sabrina Pietzsch, Thomas Beisiegel, Andreas Fuchs

Former PhD Students: Dr Andreas Dietze, Dr Natalie Kiesler, Dr Marcel Tiator, Dr Konrad Kölzer, Dr Frank Nagl

CV
Prof. Dr Paul Grimm is Professor of Expanded Realities at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, which is a member of the European University of Technology. Previously, he was Professor of Computer Graphics at 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 Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Urbana-Champaign, USA. From 2009 to 2010, he undertook a research semester at Daimler Protics GmbH in the Virtual Engineering & Consulting division. Prof. Dr Paul Grimm’s research interests include simplifying the creation process for virtual and augmented reality, and he has pursued this in various national and international projects. In particular, he is researching the digitisation of cultural heritage, as well as how AI technology can be used in and integrated into virtual environments.