Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerrit Meixner is research professor for Human-Computer Interaction in the faculty of computer science of the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences in Germany, managing director of the Usability and Interaction Technology Laboratory (UniTyLab) and Programme Dean for the Master programme of Software Engineering and Management (MSEM). Furthermore he is Affiliated Professor for Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and Associated Professor in the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg at Heidelberg University.
He got his diploma and his master degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences Trier and his doctoral degree in Engineering focusing on Human-Machine-Interaction from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
He has published more than 140 papers in different Human-Computer-Interaction related conferences, journals and books. In 2015 he got the Research Transfer Award from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Heilbronn-Franken. His main research interests are in the area of usability engineering and innovative interaction technologies (e.g. Augmented and Virtual Reality).
He is chairman of the research cluster „Human-Computer
Interaction“ at the Baden-Württemberg Center for Applied Research (BW-CAR), chairman of the section "Software Ergonomics” at the German Informatics Society
(GI) and chairman of the Technical Committee 5.31 “User-Centered Development of Industrial User Interfaces” at The Association of German Engineers (VDI). Furthermore he is member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research (Springer), i-com (de Gruyter) and Information (MDPI).
