Sven Mayer is an Assistant Professor (Jun. Prof.) at the LMU Munich (Germany) for Media Informatics. Beforehand, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) in the Future Interfaces Group lead by Chris Harrison. In March 2019, he received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) under the supervision of Niels Henze from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. As a Ph.D. student, he was part of the Cluster of Excellence for Simulation Technology (SimTech) funded by the German research foundation (DFG). His research is about modeling human behavior patterns for interactive systems. He spent the summer of 2015 at the Inference, Dynamics, and Interaction (IDI) group under the supervision of Roderick Murray-Smith at the University of Glasgow (UK). Moreover, he worked as a guest researcher for the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen under the supervision of Lewis Chuang. Prior to his Ph.D., he received his Dipl.-Inf. at the University of Stuttgart.