I am Jules POMMIER, a Berlin-born (1997) researcher specialising in interactive systems, cognitive science, and behavioural intervention design. I bring professional fluency in English as well as in my mothertongues German and French. I model game experiments to bring a systemic approach to understanding human behaviour through game design.
With emerging publications on autonomy in games, coopetitive mechanisms, and cognitive measurement through interactive systems, my academic and applied research ambition centres on developing games as controlled environments for measuring human decision-making, learning, and wellbeing.
EXPERIENCE
Scientific Researcher at HTW Berlin, DE:HIVE Institute (Since 2022)
Research and teaching assistant for several design projects and courses, successful grant applications and providing assistance to studios and laboratories.
From 2022 to 2024 in the project ‘BM=x3‘ on a ‘Vocational training in micro- and nanotechnology‘, Game Development for career advertisement and enhancing engagement with technology, merging game for learning with entertainment approaches under the lead of Prof. Brandhorst & Prof. Bremer. Management of seven different working students over the duration of the project. Cooperation with six other project partners, including physicists, engineers and microtechnologists.
Since 2025 in the BMBF-funded program ‘EnTree‘ on a ‘Gamified interactive family-based transdiagnostic therapy to support emotion regulation skills in children with mental illness‘ and in the EU-funded Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships program on ‘European Game Science Laboratory‘, realising events, courses and summer schools around the co-developed LUNA framework to advance learning and teaching Game Design all around Europe.
Successful Grant Applications (details…)
- EnTree; BMFTR-funded; 2025-2028; €1.6 Mio.
- EGSL; EU-funded; 2024-2027; €400k.
- EarthVism; EU-funded; 2025-2028; €400k.
- G4ME; EU-funded; 2026-2029; €400k.
Workshop Instructor at HTW Berlin, DE:HIVE Institute (Since 2019)
Game Design B.A., Grundlehre Spiel 1 & 2, Experimental Game Design, developing analogue and digital game prototypes with students in workshops and game jams on topics like economy, movement, time, auctions and deduction, as well as coaching them to successfully develop polished vertical slices with Unity in small groups of three to five students.
Licensed Coach for Road Cycling at German Cycling (formerly BDR) (Since 2024)
Holding the DOSB-Coach license ‘C Lizenz Leistungssport Radsport Rennsport’. Volunteering for road, track and gravel bicycle coaching, training and racing with RV Lichterfelde Steglitz e.V.
Game Jam Coach at GamesTalente Akademie with Bildung & Begabung and Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur (2020)
Volunteering to coach high school students for two weeks, enabling them to work on their first Unity game prototype.
Junior Gamification Expert at Pfeffermind Consulting GmbH (2019 – 2021)
Game Design, Consulting and Project Management for Gamification Projects and Serious Games (B2B, B2C, Events & Workshops). Production of custom corporate Escape Games, health & educational Apps, gamified campaigns, Game Books, Serious Games, e.g. in recruiting or strategy communication.
Traineeship as Gamification Expert at Pfeffermind Consulting GmbH. Reinartz, P. (2019)
Learning methods and skills for creating games and serious games. Creating basic and detailed concepts, full technical details for apps and user stories. Presenting ideas to clients, such as SAP, Bosch and the German Corporation for International Cooperation. Research and development of Room Escape games with Paperdice Solutions GmbH (parent company), as well as the design of Adventure Game Books. Experience in applying for and winning tenders.
Game Design Internship At Stryking Entertainment GmbH. Weyel, D. (2017/2018)
Six-month internship in the design and improvement of new and existing features for the Fantasy Football Platform “Football Stars”. Realisation of planned features through communication and management of external developers. Strong focus on usability and experience design. Creation of Feature Design Documents.
Volunteer Event Runner at Quo Vadis (2016 and 2017)
Runner at game development & business conference in Berlin for two years in a row.
School Internship At Venture Idea GmbH. Schwarzbach, J. (2012)
Two-week school internship in a creative agency, a start-up that grew into a larger consulting agency that exists to date. ‘Outsourcing Partner for Ideas & Innovations’ was their slogan at the time.
OUTREACH
“Creative Connect” Conference at “Arctic Games“ (2026)
Panel Talk: Future Tools & Skills
Workshop: LUNA framework for Computer Graphics and Game Programming students
Witzgall, D. & Pommier, J.
“Board Game Play” Conference at “Konstanz Spielt!” (2026)
Presentation: Between Cooperation and Competition: How Regulation Creates Scope for Coopetition
Pagano, L. & Pommier, J.
“Play the Game Design” Summer School at “IMT Lucca” (2025)
Teaching Assistant at the 1st Summer School of EGSL. Aiming to transform the understanding of game creation among students and educators through the Ludo-Narrative Game Design framework (LUNA). Organisation and Coaching activities to help the students bring their game ideas to life.
Prof. Dr. Bilancini, E., Prof. Dr. Boncinelli, L., Prof. Bremer, T., Seeber, J., Witzgall, D., Pagano, L. & Pommier, J.
“sys:logic – in logic we trust” a Game to Enhance Technological Engagement (2024)
Pommier, J., Witt, J., Meißner, R., Schmidt, L., Steiner, E.-L., Behrendt, S., Machella, M., Marinozzi, C., Schadow, F.
Autonomy in Games for Health (work in progress)
Grounded Theory Article that broadens the classical philosophical definition of Autonomy by analysing Games for Health, using EnTree as one of the viewed cases.
Dr. Spahl, W., Dr. Klamert, L., Dassow, H.-H., Pommier, J.
Smart Games for Working Memory Updating (work in progress)
Correlational Study to show the effectiveness of a Smart Game as a measurement instrument for Working Memory Updating.
Prof. Dr. Kühn, S., Prof. Dr. Schmiedek, F., Pommier, J.
EDUCATION
Online Course on Quantitative Methods (2026)
University of Amsterdam (offered by Coursera)
Principles of solid scientific methods in the behavioural and social sciences. Comparable to a university-level introductory course on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. Grade: 89,83%
Online Course on Basic Statistics (2026)
University of Amsterdam (offered by Coursera)
Measures of central tendency and dispersion, correlation and regression. Basics of probabilities, probability distributions and sampling distributions. Introduction to inferential statistics, confidence intervals and significance tests. Comparable to a university-level introductory course on statistics in the social sciences. Grade: 94,33%
Online Course Italian A1.1 and A1.2 (2026)
Volkshochschule Lichtenberg, Matteo Dargenio
Using the present tense, simple reflexive verbs, expressing preferences and habits, as well as basic prepositions and vocabulary relating to topics such as shopping, eating, giving directions, leisure and family. The aim is to express oneself clearly and comprehensibly in everyday situations: introducing oneself, talking about daily life, asking questions and holding simple conversations.
Master of system design ‘play’ (2020 – 2022)
HTW Berlin. Prof. Brandhorst, S., Prof. Bremer, T., Prof. Dr. Kühn, S., Prof. Dr. Schmiedek, F.
Research, prototyping and polishing of a playful Cognition Game with Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education.
“Development of a ‘smart games’ concept for the implementation of a cognitive game system with a focus on game feel to train working memory updating.“
Bachelor of Game Design (2015 – 2019)
HTW Berlin. Prof. Brandhorst, S., Prof. Bremer, T., Prof. Berger, J.
Education in game system design, conceptualising, prototyping and aesthetics. Development of five major game projects. Strongly teamwork, project and communication oriented, with a feedback culture. Reflective methodology and workflow documentation. Development of “graph”, an abstract two-player tabletop strategy game, which involved the conceptualisation of the game system, a ruleset and the production of the game components.
“Development of an overall concept for creating a game system based on elements of graph theory to design and implement an analogue multiplayer game.“
German and French A-levels, Abitur-Baccalauréat (2010 – 2015)
Romain-Rolland Gymnasium Berlin
Main subjects were art, French and computer science. Member of the ‘Junior Ingenieur Akademie’, a pilot for an educational project sponsored by the Fraunhofer Institut & Deutsche Telekom Stiftung.
Pre- and Elementary School (2003 – 2009)
École et Collège Voltaire Berlin
French private school in Berlin-Reinickendorf.
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