In January 2017, Prof. Dr. Sebastian von Mammen accepted his current position as a W2 professor (associate professorship) at the University of Würzburg’s Institute of Computer Science. He is heading the Games Engineering research group, which is part of the Chair for Human-Computer Interaction. They are mainly responsible for the Games Engineering program of studies.
Until the end of 2016, von Mammen was a postdoc at the Chair of Organic Computing at the University of Augsburg, where he also did his habilitation. Before that, until 2012, he did a postdoc with the LINDSAY project at the University of Calgary. As part of the Evolutionary and Swarm Design research group, von Mammen received his PhD also at the University of Calgary in 2009. He moved there in 2006, right after he had finished his Diploma degree in Informatics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.