Albrecht Schmidt

Albrecht Schmidt is Professor of Computer Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, where he holds the Chair for Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media. His research interests are in human-computer interaction, intelligent interactive systems, human centered AI, mixed reality, and digital technologies for human augmentation. Prior to his current position, he was a professor at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and held a joint position between the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS) and the University of Bonn (Germany). During his sabbatical in 2015, he was a visiting academic at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK) and worked at Microsoft Research in Cambridge (UK). He studied computer science in Ulm and Manchester and received his PhD from Lancaster University in 2003. In addition to his academic career, he has a keen interest in entrepreneurship and start-ups. Albrecht was the conference co-chair of the ACM SIGCHI 2023 conference, he is on the editorial board of the ACM TOCHI journal, and he is the co-founder of the ACM conference TEI and Automotive User interfaces.  He was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2018, elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2020, and named an ACM Fellow in 2023.