Study Program Coordinator
Experience and Narrative Design in Expanded Realities
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
Media Technology, Electronics for XR and more
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.
Prof. Dr. Paul Grimm
Chief Digital Officer of h_da
XR Technology - Software Design and Architecture for Expanded Realities and 3D Game-Engines
Internship Coordinator
International Relations Coordinator
Member of PhD Center for Applied Computer Science
Teaching and Research Areas – Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality – Digital Photography and Photogrammetry – Digitalization of Cultural Heritage – Computer Graphics and Games
Team and PhD Students Andreas Dietze, Sabrina Pietzsch, Thomas Beisiegel, Andreas Fuchs, Micha Kodalle
Former PhD Students: Dr. Natalie Kiesler, Dr. Marcel Tiator, Dr. Konrad Kölzer, Dr. Frank Nagl
CV Prof. Dr. Paul Grimm is Professor for Expanded Realities 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.
Prof. Claudius Coenen
Programming, Technology, Gadgets and Media Technology
