Stefan is researcher and senior lecturer of Creative Technologies in the School of Future Environments at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, with eight years of industry experience as a hardware and software developer. He has a Diplom of Microinformatics and a Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the Westfälische Hochschule in Germany. In New Zealand, he received his PhD from The University of Auckland, the Certificate of Tertiary Education from Auckland University of Technology, and qualified as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).