TELE-BOARD - Key Persons


Abu Awal

Job Titles:
  • Shoeb ( Rutgers ) . Now at 3M Research

Aiham Taleb


Alejandro Sierra-Múnera

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Alexander Kastius


Alexander Rakowski


Anastasiia Berg

Job Titles:
  • Guest Researcher

Andrea Eoli

Job Titles:
  • Student

Anna Zobel

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Anne Radunski

Job Titles:
  • Student

Antonia Winne


Armin Wells

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Arne Herdick

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Arpita Kappattanavar

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Arrigo Bertacchini

Job Titles:
  • Guest Researcher

Babajide Owoyele


Benjamin Bergner


Berry Boessenkool

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant

Bjarne Pfitzner

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Cato Zantman

Job Titles:
  • Guest Researcher & Lecturer

Cavit Özbay

Job Titles:
  • Student

Charlotte Balcke

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Modeling Languages and Formalisms

Charlotte Brandebusemeyer

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Chiao Fang

Job Titles:
  • Master Student )

Christoph Anders

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Christoph Hönes


Christoph Matthies


Christopher Hagedorn


Conrad Lempert

Job Titles:
  • Student

Corinna Jaschek

Job Titles:
  • Guest Researcher & External PhD Candidate

Cornelia Philippson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Daniel Lindner


David Justen


Dennis Dayanikli

Job Titles:
  • Student

Diana Stephan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Member of the Full Team

Dr. Caroline Szymanski

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer & Practice Expert With a Background in Social Neuroscience, Dancing and Design Thinking

Dr. Christoph Schlaffner

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader

Dr. Claudia Nicolai

Job Titles:
  • Academic Director

Dr. Debjyoti Ghosh

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher at Meta

Dr. Dominik Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Director of Product and Engineering at Plantura

Dr. Frank Pawlitschek


Dr. Henrik von Coler

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Audiocommunication Group, Technical

Dr. Henrike Heyne

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader

Dr. Irene Sophia Plank

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer & Author
Irene is a postdoc at LMU Klinikum München. She received her PhD from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, investigating different processes of social understanding. She explores how we understand people who are different from ourselves, and how life experiences shape such understandings. In her phd she compared mothers and non-mothers in their understanding of children and other adults. Her current research focuses on cases where social understanding and interaction are atypical or impaired. These cases are often associated with two interactaction partners being less "in sync", and she tries to use this phenomenon to characterise interactions. You can find more information about Irene's works at irenesophiaplank.com.

Dr. Jan Buys

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer, University of Cape Town )

Dr. Jingyi Zhang


Dr. Julia von Thienen

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
  • Senior Researcher

Dr. Katharina Baum

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader

Dr. Lucie-Aimée Kaffee


Dr. Marcus Kölling - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • Managing Director

Dr. Marisol Jimenez

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer & Artist
Marisol Jiménez is a composer, performer and multi-disciplinary artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, currently residing in Berlin. Her work expresses an intense fascination with the tactile process of creating sound, an interplay of the entropic within the structured musical machinery, colliding the primeval with the technological to seek forceful sensuous and visceral energies. Her output includes numerous chamber and electronic works, as well as sound and intermedia installations. Most of her acoustic, electronic and mixed media works involve self-made sound sculptures, found objects, and collected sound materials from her own field recordings, improvisations, and performances. She completed a Doctorate degree in composition at Stanford University, at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in 2011, and a Masters of Arts degree from Mills College, Oakland, CA (2005). You can find more information about Marisol's works here.

Dr. Masoumeh Javanbakhat


Dr. Michael Perscheid - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Representative

Dr. Patrick Baudisch - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Dr. Rainer Schlosser


Dr. Ralf Teusner


Dr. Ran Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Senior Graphics Researcher at Tencent

Dr. Robert Kovacs

Job Titles:
  • VP of Engineering

Dr. Russa Biswas


Dr. Sean Gustafson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Engineering

Dr. Sebastian Marwecki

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

Dr. Shama Rahman

various co-publications, including Neurodesign Live and discussions of Innovation Curricula

Dr. Stefan Konigorski


Dr. Timm Krohn


Elizabeth Yuu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Fabian Stolp

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Fabio Malcher Miranda

Job Titles:
  • Student

Felix Auringer

Job Titles:
  • Tutor Kryptographie WS23 / 24

Ferdous Nasri

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, PhD Candidate

Finn Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Modeling Languages and Formalisms

Florian Hübscher

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Florian Schmeller

Job Titles:
  • Student

Francesco Pugnaloni

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Franziska Dobrigkeit


Hadya Yassin


Hani Park


Hendrik Raetz

Job Titles:
  • Student

Holly McKee

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Ilin Tolovski

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ivan Tunov

Job Titles:
  • Student Research Assistant

J. Maximilian Kroschewski

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jan Philipp Sachs

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jana Fehr


Jannes Konarski

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Modeling Languages and Formalisms

Jannis Jost

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Modeling Languages and Formalisms

Joan Linnemann

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Modeling Languages and Formalisms

Joann Halpern

Job Titles:
  • Director of HPI New York

Joaquin Santuber

incl. the Neurodesign Seminar and co-authoring a summary chapter on neurodesign education Babajide Owoyele Project: Neurodesign Measurement Approaches Lars Walsleben Project: Innovation and Law incl. the development of the Game of Innovation for modelling studies Cato Zantman Guest Researcher & Lecturer with a background in neuroscience and user experience research Role: Co-teaching the Neurodesign Lecture - Fostering Human-Nature Empathy through Digital Innovation

Johanna Schulz

Job Titles:
  • Coordination Student Counselling

Johanna Westphal

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Johannes Huegle


Johannes Lang

Job Titles:
  • Tutor Kryptographie WS23 / 24

Jonas Chromik

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Julian Wanner

Job Titles:
  • Student

Julian Zabbarov

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Juliana Schneider


Julius Holtz

Job Titles:
  • Researcher, Lecturer & Artist
Julius Holtz holds a Master in Sound Studies and is the founder of the Berlin-based composition and sound design studio Sonic Fiction. His research questions arise from his practice as an artist and designer. Within the scope of emerging technologies and Virtual Reality environments, Julius evaluates the potential of connections between auditory and cognitive processing. The question of how we experience sound leads to investigations in sound quality. Like taste in music, the perception of sound is subjective. Sonic measurements describe the physical properties of the sound itself. They don't measure the cognitive and physical processes taking place in our bodies. Julius' research in sound perception utilizes artistic concepts as well as qualitative, scientific approaches and applied methods of corporate sound design. You can find more information about the works of Julius Holtz at https://juliusholtz.de Role: Co-lecturing sonic thinking classes

Justin Albert

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Katrin Heinrich

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Kerstin Miers


Kerstin Neubert


Keven Richly


Kim-Pascal Borchart

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Konrad Hanff

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Konrad Pawlak

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Modeling Languages and Formalisms

Konstantin Dobler


Kristina Kirsten

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Kunaphas Kongkitimanon

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Laura Holz

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Lena Kaese

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Leon Bornemann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Leon Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Master Student

Leon Stebe

Job Titles:
  • Head of Content / Editor in Chief / Spokesperson

Leonardo Auri

Job Titles:
  • Guest Researcher, Lecturer & Artist
Leonardo Auri has a professional background both in music and computer science. His current works explore synergies across both fields, as he develops Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based music instruments. You can find out more about the portfolio of his works here. Role: Co-lecturing sonic thinking classes

Lin Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Linea Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Student

Liwei Chan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Liwei Chan

Luca Hilbrich

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
  • Researcher

Lukas Böhme


Lukas Rambold

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lung-Pan Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Marcel Weisgut

Job Titles:
  • Student

Marco Cipriano


Marco Piccininni


Margarita Bugueño Pérez


Marie-Ann Jacob

Job Titles:
  • Head of Events and Corporate Relations

Marilena Davis

Job Titles:
  • Office Assistant

Marta Lemanczyk

Job Titles:
  • Student

Martin Boissier


Martin Taraz

Job Titles:
  • Student

Marwan Zouinkhi

Job Titles:
  • Ing.

Matteo Paganelli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Matthias Kirchler


Maximilian Schall


Mazhar Hameed

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Monica Gonzalez Machorro

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Moritz Schneider


Muhammad Abdullah

Job Titles:
  • Student

Nicola Mertens

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Nils Straßenburg

Job Titles:
  • Student

Noel Danz


Orhan Konak

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Pascal Hecker

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Pascal Iversen

Job Titles:
  • Student

Pauline Hiort

Job Titles:
  • Student

Paulo Yanez Sarmiento

Job Titles:
  • Student

Philipp Steigerwald

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
  • Researcher

Phillip Wenig

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Pia Francesca

Job Titles:
  • Student

Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Operating Systems and Middleware

Prof. Dr. Anja Lehmann

Job Titles:
  • Professor for Cybersecurity - Identity Management
  • Research Group Cybersecurity - Identity Management

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Renard

Job Titles:
  • Professor for Data Analytics and Computational Statistics
  • Research Group Data Analytics and Computational Statistics

Prof. Dr. Bert Arnrich

Job Titles:
  • Digital Health
  • Head of the Chair, Professor for Digital Health - Connected Healthcare

Prof. Dr. Christian Dörr

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Cybersecurity - Enterprise Security

Prof. Dr. Christoph Lippert - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Representative
  • Professor for Digital Health & Machine Learning
  • Research Group Digital Health - Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

Job Titles:
  • Team Leader
  • CEO and President of Hasso Plattner Institute for IT - Systems Engineering
  • Interviews & Media / Chairman
  • Research Group Internet Technologies and Systems
Christoph Meinel is CEO and President of Hasso Plattner Institute for IT-Systems Engineering (HPI) and professor for Internet Technologies and Systems. He is also a visiting professor at the School of Computer Science of the Technical University of Beijing and was a research fellow of the interdisciplinary center SnT at the University of Luxembourg. Under his leadership the HPI School of Design Thinking opened in 2007. He is one of the major advocates of the Design Thinking method in Europe and has been teaching at the HPI School of Design Thinking since the beginning. He is the co-author of one of the first publications about Design Thinking in German language (Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Ulrich Weinberg, Design Thinking. Innovationen lernen - Ideenwelten öffnen, München: mi-Wirtschaftsbuch, FinanzBuch Verlag, 2009). A mathematician by training, Christoph Meinel received his graduate degree, doctorate, and post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is the author or co-author of 13 text books and monographs and has published more than 400 articles in internationally recognized peer-review journals.

Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief
  • Member of the Full Team
  • Information Systems
  • Master Data Engineering
  • Research Group Information Systems
Prof. Felix Naumann is editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Data and Information Quality". We interviewed him about his work. > Go to article

Prof. Dr. Gerard de Melo - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Master Software Systems Engineering
  • Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
  • Research Group Artificial Intelligience and Intelligent Systems

Prof. Dr. Holger Giese

Job Titles:
  • Master IT - Systems Engineering
  • Research Group System Engineering and Modeling
  • System

Prof. Dr. Holger Karl

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Internet Technologies and Softwarization

Prof. Dr. Jan Auernhammer

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
Jan is Associate Professor in creative, human-centered design practices at the University of Technology Sidney (UTS). Formerly, Jan was Executive Director of the Neurodesign Program at Stanford University. Roles: Co-founding of the neurodesign initiative, organizing community events, authoring publications such as NeuroDesign, and guest lecturer on the history of the field

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Computer Graphics Systems

Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Digital Global Public Health

Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Business Process Technology

Prof. Dr. Ralf Herbrich - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director / Research Group

Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Software Architecture

Prof. Dr. Tilmann Rabl - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Professor for Data Engineering Systems
  • Research Group Data Engineering Systems

Prof. Dr. Tobias Friedrich - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director / Research Group

Prof. Hasso Plattner - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Co - Founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Software Group SAP
  • Founder / Research Group Enterprise
The institute is financed by the founder Prof. Hasso Plattner and his Hasso Plattner Foundation. Plattner is co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board of the software group SAP. Germany's most important private sponsor of science and art thus provides a unique university education in IT systems engineering. Prof. Hasso Plattner is not only the founder of HPI, but he also heads the department "Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts" where he is active in research and teaching. We congratulate our founder Hasso Plattner and say thank you for 25 years of HPI! > Go to article

Prof. Larry Leifer

Rumor has it that Larry arrived at Stanford in time to register for autumn quarter in 1958. He was fresh off the high school baseball team and still wet from a summer's surfing at the Rincon and related Santa Barbara, CA, wave places. An engineering design career was vaguely foreshadowed by early experiences with model airplanes, firebombs and his first surfing experiences with a balsa board, maybe 5 guys in the water. There had to be a better way, so he built his first foam and fiberglass board when there were 10 guys in the water. By the time he graduated from Stanford he was on his 4th board and a typical Rincon day (see also Steamer's Lane, Santa Cruz) would have upwards of 50 people in the water. Things changed. Six months at Stanford in Florence transformed the beach guy into a nascent global academic entrepreneur. On completing his bioengineering (neuroscience) doctoral thesis at Stanford (private pilot license included (ask Bernie)), he worked for several years in Zurich Switzerland, discovering the country, Europe and the lovely wife who would come to share four children with him. Open to interpretation, he may be the only guy on the Stanford d.school team who has already lived five or more d.school lives. With a first generation product design master degree, he subsequently taught in the program on returning to Stanford in 1976. His experience in bioengineering at Stanford, NASA, and ETH-Zurich is embodied in today's Medical Device Design program. Conceiving and implementing the Smart-Product-Design Program was a precursor to embedded systems and ubiquitous computing, as we know it today. His founding of the Stanford-VA Rehabilitation Engineering program is now embodied in the Biomechanics and Bioengineering programs. As it became increasingly clear that the "Renaissance-Man" of the 21st century would be a "Renaissance-Team," the Center for Design Research at Stanford was born to re-invent design-thinking at the team versus solo level. Academic credits include: 5+ patents; 20 something book chapters; 30 something hard core journal papers; 250 or so refereed proceedings papers; and 40+ successful Ph.D. advisees.

Prof. Ulrich Weinberg

Job Titles:
  • HPI School of Design Thinking

Remo Monti


Ricardo Salazar Diaz

Job Titles:
  • Student

Robin van de Water

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Roi Cohen


Sabine Wagner


Sebastian Schmidl

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Sedigheh (Sarah) Eslami


Shohei Katakura

Job Titles:
  • Student

Silvan Wehrli

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Simon Witzke

Job Titles:
  • Student

Sina Jurkowlaniec


Sina Rampe


Sophie Bodien

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Assistant
  • Administrative Staff

Stefan Halfpap


Stefan Kalabakov

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, PhD Candidate

Stefanie Knapp

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Managing Director

Susanne Ibing

Job Titles:
  • Student

Tahir Miriyev


Tamara Czinczoll


Tamara Slosarek


Tarek Galal

Job Titles:
  • Student

Theresa Weinstein

Job Titles:
  • Guest Researcher & External PhD Candidate

Thi Ngoc Dung Pham

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Managing Director

Thomas Bodner

Job Titles:
  • Student

Thomas Gärtner


Tim Strauch

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
  • Researcher

Tobias Bleifuß

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Full Team

Tobias Wuttke


Tolga Buz


Victor Adelakun


Wang Yue

Job Titles:
  • Student ( Research School / Forschungskolleg )

Yannick Hartmaring

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yindong Wang