Polina Häfner
Postdoctoral Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolPolina Häfner is a postdoctoral researcher and XR specialist with nine years of professional experience and over a decade-and-a-half exploring virtual reality since 2008. Based at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, she develops immersive learning environments, digital twins, and metaverse-based approaches to engineering education and public engagement. She combines academic research, open-source development, and hands-on teaching—lecturing on virtual engineering and mentoring students—so her work moves from prototypes to classroom impact. Polina’s background in informatics and early industry experience at SAP give her a pragmatic software engineering sensibility alongside research rigor. Passionate about accessibility and sustainability, she focuses on making immersive tech both impactful and broadly usable rather than merely novel.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Education, Informatics, Diploma of Education, Informatics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Informatics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Informatics at Technical University of Sofia
Github Skills (4)
openxr10
shortcut10
ply9
virtual-reality7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Victor-Haefner/polyvr
Dec 2016 - Jun 2020
PolyVR - a shortcut to virtual reality
Contributions:31 commits, 12 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 6 months
realityvirtual-realityshortcutopenxrply
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