Academic CV

Appointments

• since 2021Professor of Applied Computer Science with a Focus on Immersive Media, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences · Director, Immersive Reality Lab
• since 2021Guest Researcher, Technische Universität Berlin
• 2018–2022Guest Researcher, DFKI Berlin: artificial intelligence in healthcare
• 2015–2021Senior Research Scientist, Technische Universität Berlin
• 2012Guest Researcher, INRS Montreal: three-month research stay, perception experiments using EEG
• 2009–2014Research Scientist, Telekom Innovation Laboratories: subjective and physiological test methods for perceived media quality; six years of research and development outside academia

Education

• 2014Dr.-Ing. (Doctor of Engineering), Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty IV, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, magna cum laude.
  Dissertation: Neural Correlates of Quality Perception for Complex Speech Signals, published as a monograph by Springer.
• 2008Diplom-Psychologe (Psychology), Technische Universität Darmstadt, overall grade sehr gut, very good, which is the highest overall grade awarded in the German Diplom.
  Thesis: Vitalisierende Maßnahmen bei nachlassender Fahrerkondition während des Kolonnenfahrens (measures to restore alertness in drivers during platooning).
• 2000–2003Staatlich geprüfter Assistent für Datentechnik (state-certified data technology assistant), Heinz-Nixdorf-Berufskolleg: state vocational examination in electrical engineering, information and telecommunication technology, specialising in data technology

Professional certification

• 2016Professional Scrum Master I · Certified Scrum Product Owner: agile project methods

Languages

German: native speaker. English: fluent. Teaching, supervision, publication and standardization work are conducted in both languages.

Awards & recognition

• 2025Best Paper Award, MMVE Workshop @ ACM MMSys, for Multimodal User Experience in Extended Reality: Exploring Hand Tracking, Voice, and Passthrough Interactions
• 2024Key Innovator, Innovation Radar of the European Commission, twice: Validation Methodology for XR Digital Twin Applications and User-Centered Design Methodology for XR Digital Twin Solutions
• 2024Special Prize, Sustainability Award of Volksbank Beckum-Lippstadt (for a supervised Bachelor's thesis)
• 2023Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society (MMTC), for Estimation of the Quality of Experience During Video Streaming From Facial Expression and Gaze Direction, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
• 2023Diversity and Societal Impact Award, QoMEX, for Protect and Extend: Using GANs for Synthetic Data Generation of Time-Series Medical Records
• 2021Conference Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE VR, for Influence of Interactivity and Social Environments on User Experience and Social Acceptability in Virtual Reality
• 2016Post-doctoral fellowship, Technische Universität Berlin
• 2007Scholarship, Knowledge Enhancement for the Youth (KEY) programme of Daimler AG, Stuttgart

Bibliometrics

• 3,015 citations · h-index 29 · i10-index 83 (Google Scholar, 18 August 2026)
• Of these, 2,077 citations · h-index 23 · i10-index 62 since 2021. Roughly two thirds of all citations fall in the last five years
• 1,687 citations from 1,204 documents · 161 indexed publications · h-index 22 (Scopus, 18 August 2026)
• Publications before 2019 appear under the earlier name Antons, J.-N. — the same person, ORCID 0000-0002-2786-9262; more in the FAQ
• 237 publications: 2 monographs and edited volumes · 6 book chapters · 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and 6 further journal contributions · 105 peer-reviewed conference papers and 59 further conference contributions · 17 contributions to international standardization · 2 VDE position papers.

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Standardization & transfer

• Co-developer of ITU-T Recommendation P.812, Principles of subjective test methods for interactive virtual reality (VR) applications (2024)
• 17 contributions in total: ITU-T Study Group 12 (P.812, P.IntVR, P.PHYSIO, G.1035, P.GAME)
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 2 (MPEG): Metaverse use cases
• DKE at DIN and VDE: digital qualification in healthcare
• Founding member, DIN NA 043-01-24 AA, Metaverse and Extended Reality, since its constitutive meeting in October 2023. The committee is the German mirror of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24, which had no national mirror before, and it is where German positions on the IT foundations of XR are formed
• Policy advice, United Kingdom: co-author of a report on immersive technologies commissioned through UKRI under the DCMS Science and Analysis R&D Programme and written for government analysts and policy staff; contributed external expertise to the Metaverse Horizon Scanning workshop at Queen's University Belfast in May 2023 that fed into it
• Shaping the Metaverse: policy engagement with immersive technologies in the UK, Queen's University Belfast, 2023
• 2024 founding of XRwise gUG under the BMWK innovation programme for business models and pioneering solutions. A non-profit spin-off carrying XR event tooling out of the research context

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Invited talks & keynotes

2 keynotes, 7 invited talks and 1 tutorial since 2022, to audiences in medicine, care, public administration, policy, the regulated pharmaceutical industry and the general public, the applications this work is for, rather than the field it comes from.

Keynotes and invited talks

• 2026Invited talk: DIDYMOS-XR: Dynamische digitale Zwillinge in Extended Reality — realisiert am Smart Village Etteln (DIDYMOS-XR: dynamic digital twins in extended reality, built at the smart village of Etteln). Westfälischer Zukunftsdialog, Westfalen e.V. mit der Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt, Hamm, Germany.
• 2026Tutorial: Technologie trifft Förderung: Kooperation für KI in der GMP-Welt (Technology meets funding: cooperation for AI in the GMP world). GMP.KI-Konferenz 2026, PTS Training Service, Paderborn, Germany.
• 2025Invited talk: Affektives Potenzial immersiver XR: Konversationen mit Robotern und Navigation (The affective potential of immersive XR: conversations with robots, and navigation). Smart Systems Conference, Dortmund, Germany.
• 2025Invited talk: MIA-PROM — Multimodal Assistant system for collecting Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. Forschungssymposium „Metaverse meets Health“, Hagen, Germany.
• 2023Invited talk: Impulsvortrag Immersive Medien (Immersive media — an impulse talk). Stadtlabor Soest, Soest, Germany.
• 2023Invited talk: Nutzer*innenzentrierte Entwicklung von Chatbots: zur Optimierung von Systemen auf menschliche Bedürfnisse (User-centred development of chatbots: fitting systems to human needs). Treffen der NExTcommunity Chatbot, NExT e.V. — Netzwerk: Experten für die digitale Transformation der Verwaltung, online.
• 2023Invited talk: Introduction and selected research topics. Metaverse Horizon Scanning workshop, Belfast, United Kingdom.
• 2023Invited talk: Gebrauchstauglichkeit digitaler Assistenzsysteme durch Nutzer*innenzentrierung — Projektbeispiele mit verschiedenen Perspektiven (Usability of digital assistance systems through user-centred design — project examples from several perspectives). 7. Ambient Medicine® Forum „CARE REGIO — Pflege im Aufbruch“, Kempten (Allgäu), Germany.
• 2022Keynote: Nutzung von Sprach- und Textparametern für die Personalisierung von digitalen Gesundheitsmaßnahmen (Using speech and text parameters to personalise digital health interventions). Frühjahrstagung der Berliner Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Neurologie (BGPN), Berlin, Germany.
• 2022Workshop keynote: Umgang mit ethischen Fragen bei der Entwicklung von KI in EdTech-Anwendungen (Handling ethical questions in the development of AI for educational technology). Workshop „Rahmenbedingungen für Künstliche Intelligenz in EdTech“, DELFI — Fachtagung Bildungstechnologien der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Visits and public visibility

• 2025Presentation to a visiting delegation: Virtuelles Institut für VR/AR (Virtual Institute for VR/AR). Besuch von Ina Brandes, Ministerin für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Lippstadt, Germany.
• 2023Project launch event: Virtuelles Institut Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality in der Produktentwicklung (Virtual Institute for Augmented and Virtual Reality in product development). Auftaktveranstaltung „Digitalise_SWF“, Lippstadt, Germany.

Third-party funding

• Approximately €4.609 million in continuous third-party funding since 2015, across 22 funded projects from 10 funding lines, with awards running through 2029
• 20 of 22 projects (€4.509 million) applied for and led independently; 3 coordinated as consortium lead
• Funders: European Union (Horizon Europe, EIT Digital, Joint Programming Initiative), State of North Rhine-Westphalia (EFRE), BMBF, BMWE/BMWK, BMDV, Innovation Fund of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), GKV-Spitzenverband, DAAD, industry partners

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Supervision

• 5 ongoing doctoral projects in the Immersive Reality Lab, each embedded in a funded project. Named topics and completed procedures on the teaching page
• 4 completed doctoral examinations supervised or reviewed at TU Berlin, including one binational cotutelle with the University of Technology Sydney
• Where they went afterwards: three of the four are postdoctoral researchers at TU Berlin, one works in industry in Colombia
• Papers from the lab are presented at their conferences by the doctoral researchers who wrote them. I lead the work, and prepare the presentation with them
• 35 Master's and 70 Bachelor's theses supervised since 2011

Teaching

• Continuous teaching activity since 2013, at Technische Universität Berlin and Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, in German and English
• Topics: Augmented Reality · Virtual Reality · Interactive Systems · Graphical User Interfaces · UX Research · Software Ergonomics · Visual Computing · Ubiquitous Computing · Game Development · Introduction to C and C++ · Usability Engineering · Physiological Computing
• Module responsibility: Human Perception („Mensch und Wahrnehmung“) and UX Research

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Service & leadership

Leadership

• Director, Immersive Reality Lab, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences
• Mission: developing and evaluating trustworthy XR systems for learning, work and public-space interaction
• Team: 11 research staff and 6 student assistants; annual budget of approximately €1 million
• Infrastructure: XR headsets, eye-tracking setups, physiological sensing, behavioural observation and coding
• Founder and Director, Kompetenzteam HealthTech, HSHL, since 2024
• Lead, Human-Machine Interaction research area, HSHL, since 2022

University self-governance

• Department Council (Fachbereichsrat), HSHL, member since 2022
• Commission for Quality Improvement, HSHL, member since 2022
• Appointment committee (Berufungskommission), Technische Universität Berlin, member, one procedure
• Institute Council (Institutsrat), Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science, Faculty IV, Technische Universität Berlin, deputy member, 2015–2021
• Co-Head, Computer Visualistics and Design degree programme, HSHL, with a co-lead, since 2024

Conference & workshop organisation

• since 2026Steering Committee, International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)
• 2026Technical Program Chair, MMVE 2026, Hong Kong (co-located with ACM MMSys '26)
• 2026Workshop Co-Chair, Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2026, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
• 2026Co-organiser, workshop Multi-User Interactions in Immersive Smart Spaces, 10th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis 2026), Munich
• 2026Co-organiser, XR for Challenging Environments (XR4CE), second edition, 3 November 2026, satellite event of EuroXR 2026 and the Virtual Worlds Partnership Annual Forum, Valencia; with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, University of Zagreb and Fraunhofer FIT
• 2025Co-organiser, special session Ensuring Comfort, Accessibility, and Safety in Extended Reality, QoMEX 2025, with S. Vlahović (University of Zagreb) and T. Kojić (TU Berlin)
• 2023Co-organiser, special session Immersive Experiences, QoMEX 2023, with T. Kojić (TU Berlin) and S. Rossi (CWI Amsterdam)
• 2022General Chair, QoMEX 2022, Lippstadt — 42 of 86 submissions accepted (48.8%)
• 2021Co-organiser, special session Quality and User Experience in Extended Reality, QoMEX 2021, Montreal, held online, with T. Kojić (TU Berlin), G. Regal (AIT) and F. Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano)
• 2019Local Chair, QoMEX 2019, Berlin, with I. Hube-Achter and I. Wechsung
• 2016, 2018Organiser, workshop on the use of tablets in the health sector, Information Technology Society (ITG) in the VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies, with S. Möller
• 2016Organiser, special session Physiology-Based QoE Assessment, 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2016), with T. H. Falk and S. Möller
• 2016Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, 5th ISCA/DEGA Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS 2016), with S. Möller, S. Egger and T. Hoßfeld
• 2013Organiser, special session Affect and Physiology in QoE Research, 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2013), with K. De Moor and R. Schleicher

Editorial boards

• since 2025Editorial Board, Virtual Worlds (MDPI)
• since 2021Editorial Board, Quality and User Experience (Springer)
• currentGuest Associate Editor, section Augmented and Synthetic Neuroergonomics, Frontiers in Neuroergonomics
• currentGuest Associate Editor, section Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour, Frontiers in Virtual Reality

Guest editorships

• ongoingGuest Editor, Special Issue Applying Virtual Worlds Knowledge: Methods, Evaluation, and Effective Transfer of Knowledge into Practice, Virtual Worlds (MDPI), with T. Kojić (TU Berlin); open for submissions until 20 February 2027
• ongoingTopic Editor, Research Topic Cybersickness and Wellbeing in Immersive XR and AR, Frontiers in Neuroergonomics (section Augmented and Synthetic Neuroergonomics), with P. Ceravolo (University of Milan) and W. Xu (Birmingham City University); open for submissions until 28 February 2027
• 2023Topic Editor, Research Topic User States in Extended Reality Media Experiences for Entertainment Games, Frontiers in Virtual Reality (section Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour), with P. Lopes (Lusófona University), J. A. Garcia (University of Technology Sydney) and D. Melhart (University of Malta); five articles, closed with a joint editorial

Advisory boards

• 2025–2027Advisory Board, TD-CHAT, the Troubled Desire self-help and chat study, Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, with Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, made possible by Prevention Global and financed by the Oak Foundation. The successor to STOP-CSAM: it evaluates the multilingual self-help platform Troubled Desire and its anonymous chat sessions with trained therapists.
• 2025–2027Advisory Board, EditA, Evaluation von digitalen Anwendungen zur Sicherstellung der Versorgungs- und Arbeitsqualität in der Pflege (evaluating digital applications for care quality, working conditions and usability in nursing), Institut Arbeit und Technik at Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen, with the Quality and Usability Lab at TU Berlin and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, funded by the GKV-Spitzenverband under the model programme of § 8 (3) SGB XI. The project develops and validates a survey instrument with which care providers can measure whether a digital application actually improves care quality, working conditions and usability.
• 2023–2025Advisory Board, STOP-CSAM, Scalable Technology for Online Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse & Child Abuse Materials, Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, funded by the European Commission. A prevention project addressing the consumption of child sexual abuse material, reaching people who are not in contact with any service and offering them a therapist-led online intervention in four languages. 5,029 people responded to the offer and 180 completed four chat sessions each; among those who stayed, the time spent using the material halved on average and what was consumed became less severe.

Research proposal review

• Germany: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) · BMBF project management agencies · VolkswagenStiftung · DAAD, in the Transnational Education line, for degree programmes offered by German universities abroad
• European Commission: Expert Evaluator, Horizon Europe
• Other national agencies: FFG (Austria) · NWO (Netherlands)
• Both as an individual reviewer and as a member of evaluation panels

Reviewing & programme committees

• Conferences: ACM CHI · IEEE ISMAR · ACM VRST · QoMEX · INTERSPEECH · ICASSP
• Journals: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · JMIR · Experimental Brain Research · Journal of Building Engineering

Memberships

• Professional societies: ACM · IEEE · VDE, including its Information Technology Society (ITG)
• Standardisation bodies: Founding member, DIN NA 043-01-24 AA — Metaverse and Extended Reality, the German mirror committee for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24, since 2023
• Research networks: Founding member, Berlin XR Lab · Member, QUALINET: European network on Quality of Experience; active in COST Action IC1003 (2010–2014), a member since the network continued beyond it · Member, COST Action CA23135 (ARiF): Bringing Digital Data and Reality Together, Augmented Reality in Forestry, 2024–2028; member since 2026

International collaboration

• Joint publications, research proposals and project partnerships with partners in 19 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
• Research stay: INRS Montreal, CA (2012), three months: Perception experiments using EEG

Named partner institutions

• Politecnico di MilanoIT: Social acceptability and interactivity in AR/VR; joint publications and supervision
• University of Technology SydneyAU: Affect recognition in VR, virtual health assistants, digital twins; binational cotutelle doctorate (A. Pinilla, 2022)
• American University of BeirutLB: Horizon Europe project on digital twins for extended reality
• NTNU TrondheimNO: Quality of Experience, immersive media experience, QUALINET
• University of ZagrebHR: ITU-T standardization of interactive VR test methods
• University of TorontoCA: Randomised controlled trial on aphasia training (JMIR)
• University of Bremen / St. GallenDE/CH: Pseudo-haptics and vibrotactile feedback in VR (ACM CHI 2024)
• Queen's University BelfastUK: Policy work on immersive technologies

External profiles