Ansgar Gerlicher, PhD

Independent Scientific Consultant
Director of Research in Mobile & Automotive Applications
Deputy Head Institute for Applied Research

Co-Founder & Director
The Institute for Mobility and Digital Innovation
Research Lighthouse INSPIRE

Project Lead XR based user-centered development
ARENA2036 – CARpulse

Member of the Doctoral Centre BW-CAR and
the Doctoral Committee of the
Doctoral Association of Universities of Applied Sciences Baden-Württemberg

Co-Founder & Chair
W3C Automotive Privacy Principles Community Group

University startup-mentor and co-founder of several start-ups
Head of interns’ office Mobile Media
Scientific Ombudsman
Member of the University Examination Board

Professor in Computer Science
(Research Professorship with independent doctoral supervision rights)
Stuttgart Media University
Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart

Research areas:
Autonomous driving and UX in autonomous systems, transparent AI, E-Health, IoT, AI Driven Software Development,
Mobile Applications, Mobile Security, Embedded Systems, In-Vehicle-Infotainment Applications, Connected Car,
Virtual-, Augmented- and Mixed-Reality Applications in Research and Product Development

Course of studies:

Mobile Media (Bachelor)
Computer Science and Media (Master and Bachelor)

Work Address:
Nobelstr. 10, 70569 Stuttgart

E-Mail:
mail at ansgargerlicher dot de

DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/81/9393.html
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7990-8158
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R2J17RsAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

Start-Ups

I am active as Start-Up mentor in the HdM Sandbox programm: https://sandbox-stuttgart.de/netzwerk/mentoring/.
If you are interested in founding your own company and need support, feel free to contact me.
Companies I have co-founded in the recent years:

gerenwa GmbH – Innovation Consultancy in Auto-/Mobile Apps and E-Health, co-founder (2015)
ovadoo GmbH – IoT Solutions and Bluetooth Mesh-Network Beacons, co-founder (2016)
NeverNull GmbH – Cross-Platform Rapid App Development Solutions (eXist grant winner), co-founder (2018)
Niato UG (formerly ParkHero) – Find free parking space in your area, technology advisor & partner (2018)
iam.health GmbH – developing great digital health products for the future, co-founder (2018)
KAMAlogic GmbH – Consulting for auto-/mobile apps and IoT, co-founder (2018)

I co-founded my first company in 1996 (netads Iffland, Gerlicher & Frech GbR), which we sold in 2005.
Since 2010 I was Co-Chairman of the Steinbeis Transfer Center (STZ) for Mobile Communication and Embedded Systems

Other Start-Ups I mentor(ed), support(ed) and consult(ed):

CoreWay – eXist Grant Winner, IGP (Innovationsprogram Geschäftsmodelle und Pionierlösungen) Grant Winner
Iremia – eXist Grant Winner Jan. 2026
XR interior – eXist Grant Winner Nov. 2025
Relionite / dirAct – eXist Women Grant Winner 2024
Luci Life – eXist Women Grant Winner 2023
Asthma App
Schule 4.0
BaseTrack
Digital-Advice.io
Filestage
MicroID (UniQu)
Insightity
BlueRange
AllNewFaces

Memberships:

PC Member of the IEEE Transportation Systems Society – Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2026
Member of the Car Connectivity Consortium
Member of the Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems (ASAM), part of the Software-Oriented Vehicle Diagnostics (SOVD) standardization committee.
PC Member of the SCAP Conference 2024.
TPC Member of the International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing in Disconnected, Intermittent and Limited (DIL) Networks (SOC-DIL)
TPC Member of the The 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2015), Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015
PC Member of the SCAP2024 (Stuttgart Conference On Automotive Production)
Guest Editor of the Journal on Mobile Information Systems
Visiting Professor at the RMIT University Melbourne, Metropolia University Helsinki (Finland), Jönköping and Södertörn University (Sweden), Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Netherlands) and giving lectures at HTI Biel (Switzerland) and others.
PC Member of the The 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2016), Granada, Spain, December 14-16, 2016
Member of IEEE Consumer Electronics and Communications Society
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Privacy Policy (Datenschutz)

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