| Since January 2001 | Acting Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, focusing on research and teaching in Human-Computer Interaction. |
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| June 2000 | Ph.D. with highest distinction (Dr.rer.nat. summa cum laude) from the Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Thesis title: "A Pattern Approach to Interaction Design" (in English, published by John Wiley & Sons, nominated for Dissertation Award). |
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| April–December 2000 | Researcher employed at the Telecooperation Group, Dpt. of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Major tasks: Completing the development of two interactive exhibits, Personal Orchestra and Virtual Vienna, for the HOUSE OF MUSIC VIENNA. |
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| Oct. 1996–Dec. 2000 | Part-time Visiting Scientist (from Linz respectively Darmstadt) and lecturer for HCI at the Department of Multimedia Computing, University of Ulm, Germany. |
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| June 1995–March 2000 | Researcher employed at the Telecooperation Group, Dpt. of Computer Science, University of Linz, Austria. Major tasks: Designing, developing, and managing the implementation of a series of interactive exhibits including the award-winning WorldBeat music system for the Ars Electronica Center Linz (presented at CHI’97 and elsewhere), and the Virtual Vienna and Personal Orchestra exhibits for the HOUSE OF MUSIC VIENNA. |
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| May 1995 | M.Sc. with highest distinction (Diplom, "sehr gut") from the Department of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Thesis title: "HyperSource: A Hypermedia Approach to Program Development and Documentation" (presented at WWW’95). | |
| Oct. 1992–March 1993 | Visiting student at the Department of Computing at Imperial College, University of London. Major tasks: Developing the award-winning Xmtutor interactive OSF/Motif programming tutorial still being marketed today. |
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| Oct. 1989–May 1995 | B.Sc. & M.Sc. studies in Computer Science (Diplominformatik) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. Emphasis on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Educational Theory and Massively Parallel Systems. Received a full-time scholarship from the German National Scholarship Foundation (see Awards). |
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| June 1988 | Graduated from high school (Gymnasium) in Bremen with best marks possible (Abiturnote 1,0). See Awards. |
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Jan Borchers <borchers@stanford.edu> • Last modified Mar 22, 2001 12:41 PM