Prof. Philip Hausmeier is Professor for Experience and Narrative Design in Expanded Realities and coordinator of the Augmented and Virtual Reality Design study programme. After completing his diploma in communication design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in 2003 and his Master of Fine Arts at the Slade School of Art London in 2005, he showed his work as a freelance artist and designer in international exhibitions at the ZKM Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and MONA Tasmania, among 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 for spatial and XR design at various universities. In 2017 he co-founded the international online platform for artistic VR experiences Radiance VR. He is also the founder and a co-organizer 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 for Media Technology at the Media Department of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the founding professor of the Augmented and Virtual Reality Design (B.A.) programme. He studied physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt and earned his PhD as a researcher at CERN in Geneva, where he worked in the field of ultra-relativistic high-energy 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 specializing 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 cinema and television.

Prof. Gabler is a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik and was instrumental 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 PhD Center 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
– Digitalization 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
Digitalization of Cultural Heritage
DaF2L: DAF lehren – DaF lernen

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 for Expended Realities at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences which is a member of the European University of Technology. Before, he was 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 include simplifying the creation process for Virtual and Augmented Reality, and he has pursued this in various national and international projects. Especially, he is researching the Digitalization of Cultural Heritage as well as how AI technology can be used for and integrated in virtual environments.