Brief profile of Dr Christian Stein
Dr Christian Stein is a computer scientist and Germanist and has been working for over 10 years with a focus on serious games, gamification and game-based learning. He heads gamelab.berlin at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, which researches games in knowledge transfer and develops games itself. gamelab.berlin has been developing virtual reality applications since 2014 and utilising them on a large scale. He also conducts research in the highly interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity. Christian’s focus has expanded to the field of AI since 2022 and he is dedicated to the question of how AI can be used responsibly in specific scenarios. With his spin-off from gamelab.berlin ‘Playersjourney GmbH’, he has been realising innovative games for knowledge transfer, advising on game-based learning and developing innovative digital products since 2017.
Christian is currently working on a voluntary basis for the Metaverse Europe Foundation on the use of AI and gamification in the educational Metaverse initiative. With Playersjourney, he can draw on close research links, an interdisciplinary and international team, intensive collaboration with customers and innovative approaches that are carefully implemented from the initial idea through to ongoing operation.
