Notable moves

People in bold on the researchers list who changed jobs.

July 2025

• Johanna Pirker: Graz University of Technology (Austria) to Technical University of Munich (Germany)

June 2025

• Alexander Dockhorn: Leibniz University Hannover (Germany) to University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)

May 2025

• Sam Devlin: Microsoft to Meta

January 2025

• Martin Pichlmair: Laika to Neon Aurelius
• Anne Sullivan: Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) to York University (Canada)
• Kristen Yu*: University of Alberta to Take-Two Interactive

December 2024

• Sebastian Cmentowski: University of Waterloo (Canada) to Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
• Michael S. Debus: Bright Star Studios to Independent/Other
• Lucas Ferreira: Federal University of Viçosa to Federal University of Minas Gerais

October 2024

• Markus Eger: California State Polytechnic University Pomona to University of California Santa Cruz

September 2024

• Jialin Liu: Southern University of Science and Technology to Lingnan University
• James Owen Ryan: Hexagram to Independent/Other

August 2024

• M Charity*: New York University to University of Richmond
• Nic Junius*: University of California Santa Cruz (USA) to CCP Games (Iceland)
• Mehmet Kosa: Northeastern University to Marshall University
• Sandy Louchart: Glasgow School of Art to University of Edinburgh
• Anurag Sarkar*: Northeastern University (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)

July 2024

• Edward F. Melcer: University of California Santa Cruz (USA) to Carleton University (Canada)

June 2024

• Sasha Azad*: North Carolina State University to Jabali
• Adrian David Cheok: i-University Tokyo (Japan) to Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (China)

April 2024

• Vanessa Volz: modl.ai (Denmark) to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)

February 2024

• Cameron Browne: Maastricht University (Netherlands) to Smart Toys & Games (Belgium)

January 2024

• Kate Compton: Northwestern University (USA) to Lego Group (Denmark)
• Eric Kaltman: California State University Channel Islands (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Madison Klarkowski: University of Saskatchewan (Canada) to Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• Rushit Sanghrajka*: University of Utah to Northeastern University

November 2023

• Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid: JAIST (Japan) to National University of Malaysia (Malaysia)

October 2023

• Maximilian Altmeyer: DFKI to Saarland University of Applied Sciences
• Johannes Pfau: University of California Santa Cruz (USA) to Utrecht University (Netherlands)
• Chiara F. Sironi: Maastricht University to Independent/Other

September 2023

• Éric Piette: Maastricht University (Netherlands) to Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
• Phoebe O. Toups Dugas: New Mexico State University (USA) to Monash University (Australia)

August 2023

• Rafet Sifa: Fraunhofer Institute to University of Bonn [primary affiliation change]
• Heinrich Söbke: Bauhaus University Weimar to Weserbergland University of Applied Sciences
• Tess Tanenbaum: University of California Irvine to Independent/Other

July 2023

• Sebastian Cmentowski*: University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) to University of Waterloo (Canada)
• Erica Kleinman*: University of California Santa Cruz to Northeastern University
• Max Kreminski: Santa Clara University to Midjourney [primary affiliation change]
• Quinn Kybartas*: McGill University to Studio Imugi
• Peta Wyeth: Queensland University of Technology to University of Technology Syndney

June 2023

• Isabelle Kniestedt*: Delft University of Technology to Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht

May 2023

• Melanie Dickinson: dj2 Entertainment to Independent/Other
• Regan L. Mandryk: University of Saskatchewan to University of Victoria
• Josh Aaron Miller*: Northeastern University to Activision Blizzard

April 2023

• Lucas Ferreira: University of Alberta (Canada) to Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil)

February 2023

• Alice Bowman: Netspeak Games to MAG Interactive
• Martin Pichlmair: IT University of Copenhagen to Laika [primary affiliation change]

January 2023

• Marcello A. Gómez Maureira*: Leiden University to University of Twente
• Isaac Karth*: University of California Santa Cruz to Liminal Inc.
• Matthew Stephenson: Maastricht University (Netherlands) to Flinders University (Australia)

December 2022

• Joseph Alexander Brown: Brock University to Thompson Rivers University
• Kathrin Gerling: KU Leuven (Belgium) to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
• Simon M. Lucas: Meta to Queen Mary University of London [primary affiliation change]

September 2022

• Philip Bontrager: Independent/Other to Meta
• Felix Born*: University of Duisburg-Essen to Independent/Other
• Alice Bowman: Trailmix Games to Netspeak Games
• Michael Cook: Queen Mary University of London to King's College London
• Éric Jacopin: École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr to Hawkswell Studios
• Ida Kathrine Hammeleff Jørgensen: IT University of Copenhagen to University of Southern Denmark
• Max Kreminski*: University of California Santa Cruz to Santa Clara University
• Elisa D. Mekler: Aalto University (Finland) to IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
• James Owen Ryan: Carleton College to Hexagram
• Marius Stanescu: Politehnica University of Bucharest to Independent/Other

August 2022

• Nicholas Davis Bowman: Texas Tech University to Syracuse University
• Simone Downie*: Ohio State University to Illinois State University
• Gabriele Ferri: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to Eindhoven University of Technology
• Joshua A. Fisher: Columbia College Chicago to Ball State University
• Michael Cerny Green*: New York University to Independent/Other
• Mehmet Kosa: Arizona State University to Northeastern University
• Chris Martens: North Carolina State University to Northeastern University
• Justus Robertson: Kennesaw State University to Rochester Institute of Technology
• Katja Rogers: University of Waterloo (Canada) to University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Alireza Shirvani: Saint Louis University to Tulane University
• Adam Summerville: California State Polytechnic University Pomona to The Molasses Flood

June 2022

• Zuozhi Yang*: Drexel University to Tencent

May 2022

• Michael S. Debus: IT University of Copenhagen to Bright Star Studios
• Gustavo Fortes Tondello: Independent/Other to Google

April 2022

• Daniel A. Ashlock sadly passed away on April 5, 2022 [Obituary]
• Melanie Dickinson: Zynga to dj2 Entertainment
• Julian Frommel: University of Saskatchewan (Canada) to Utrecht University (Netherlands)

March 2022

• Batu Aytemiz*: University of California Santa Cruz to Agentic
• Paulo Bala*: NOVA University Lisbon to University of Lisbon
• Nicole Basaraba: Maastricht University (Netherlands) to Coventry University (UK)
• Alexander Dockhorn: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg to Leibniz University Hannover
• Pujana Paliyawan: Ritsumeikan University to Independent/Other
• Judith van Stegeren*: University of Twente to Independent/Other

February 2022

• Hendrik Baier: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica to Eindhoven University of Technology
• Sebastian Deterding: University of York to Imperial College London
• Lucas Ferreira*: University of California Santa Cruz (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Petar Jercic: Jamzone (Netherlands) to Graz University of Technology (Austria)
• Edward J. Powley: Falmouth University to Beesting Labs
• María Cecilia Reyes: Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany) to Vilnius University (Lithuania)

January 2022

• Joseph Alexander Brown: Innopolis University (Russia) to Brock University (Canada)
• Alena Denisova: City University of London to University of York

December 2021

• Enrica Loria: Graz University of Technology (Austria) to Keen Software House (Czech Rep.)
• Argenis Ramirez Gomez: Cardiff University to University of Portsmouth

November 2021

• Kei Kobayashi*: University of Tsukuba to Nagoya City University
• Alexander Zook: Unity Technologies to Nvidia

October 2021

• Johannes Pfau*: University of Bremen to University of California Santa Cruz
• Alireza Shirvani*: University of Kentucky to Saint Louis University

September 2021

• Rodrigo Canaan*: New York University to California Polytechnic State University
• Anders Drachen: University of York (UK) to University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
• April Grow: Goldsmiths University of London (UK) to California Polytechnic State University (USA)

August 2021

• Bob De Schutter: Miami University to Northeastern University
• Zhuying Li*: Monash University (Australia) to Southeast University (China)
• Jan D. Smeddinck: Newcastle University (UK) to Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (Austria)

July 2021

• Rina R. Wehbe*: University of Waterloo to Dalhousie University

June 2021

• Ahmed Khalifa: New York University (USA) to University of Malta (Malta)

May 2021

• Enrica Loria: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) to Graz University of Technology (Austria)
• Henrik Warpefelt: Södertörn University (Sweden) to Kennesaw State University (USA)

April 2021

• Phil Lopes: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) to Lusofona University (Portugal)
• Morgan McGuire: Nvidia to Roblox Corporation

March 2021

• Stella Mazeika: Gallium Artists to Google
• Alex Moseley: University of Leicester to Anglia Ruskin University
• Gustavo Fortes Tondello: University of Waterloo to Independent/Other
• Günter Wallner: Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) to Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) [primary affiliation change]

February 2021

• Nicole Basaraba: Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) to Maastricht University (Netherlands)
• Mara Dionisio*: NOVA University Lisbon to University of Madeira
• Hartmut Koenitz: HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (Netherlands) to Södertörn University (Sweden)

January 2021

• Markus Eger: University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica) to California State Polytechnic University Pomona (USA)
• Sergio Estupiñán*: University of Geneva to Beekee LCC [primary affiliation change]
• Graham Kendall: University of Nottingham to Independent/Other [retired]
• Mehmet Kosa: Middle East Technical University (Turkey) to Arizona State University (USA)
• María Cecilia Reyes: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) to Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany)
• Justus Robertson: University of York (UK) to Kennesaw State University (USA)
• Jichen Zhu: Drexel University (USA) to IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

December 2020

• Simon M. Lucas: Queen Mary University of London to Facebook [primary affiliation change]
• Aung Pyae: Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) to Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
• Ari Shapiro: Embody Digital to ByteDance

October 2020

• Argenis Ramirez Gomez*: Lancaster University to Cardiff University
• Hubert P. H. Shum: Northumbria University to Durham University

September 2020

• Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari: Södertörn University to Stockholm University
• Erica Kleinman: Northeastern University to University of California Santa Cruz
• Bjarke Alexander Larsen: Aalborg University (Denmark) to University of California Santa Cruz (USA)
• James Ryan: BBN Technologies to Carleton College

August 2020

• Kate Compton: University of California Santa Cruz to Northwestern University
• Bernhard Maurer: University of Salzburg to Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
• Aline Normoyle: Swarthmore College to Bryn Mawr College
• Aaron A. Reed: Spirit AI to Independent/Other
• Riemer van Rozen: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
• Richard Zhao: Pennsylvania State University Behrend (USA) to University of Calgary (Canada)

July 2020

• M. Brandon Haworth: York University to University of Victoria
• Sebastian Risi: modl.ai to IT University of Copenhagen [primary affiliation change]
• Magy Seif El-Nasr: Northeastern University to University of California Santa Cruz

June 2020

• Ari Shapiro: University of Southern California to Embody Digital

May 2020

• Teun Dubbelman: HKU University of the Arts Utrecht to Avans University of Applied Sciences

April 2020

• Adrian David Cheok: Independent/Other to i-University Tokyo (Japan)

March 2020

• Peter Christiansen*: University of Utah to Independent/Other
• Valentina Nisi: University of Madeira to University of Lisbon

February 2020

• Johan Hagelbäck: Linnaeus University to Independent/Other
• Daniel Karavolos*: University of Malta (Malta) to Beyond Sports (Netherlands)
• Katja Rogers*: Ulm University (Germany) to University of Waterloo (Canada)

January 2020

• Peter I. Cowling: University of York to Queen Mary University of London
• Julian Frommel*: Ulm University (Germany) to University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
• Levi Lelis: Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Elena Márquez Segura*: Uppsala University (Sweden) to University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
• Rebecca Rouse: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) to University of Skövde (Sweden)
• Alexander Zook: Activision Blizzard to Unity Technologies

November 2019

• Boyang Li: Baidu to Nanyang Technological University

October 2019

• Alice Bowman: Abertay University to Trailmix Games
• Petar Jercic*: Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden) to Jamzone (Netherlands)
• Justus Robertson: North Carolina State University (USA) to University of York (UK)
• Paula Alexandra Silva: University of Aveiro to University of Coimbra
• Sarah-Kristin Thiel: Aarhus University to Independent/Other

September 2019

• Matthew Guzdial*: Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Tomohiro Harada: Ritsumeikan University to Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Stella Mazeika*: University of California Santa Cruz to Gallium Artists
• Santiago Ontañón: Drexel University to Google [primary affiliation change]
• Sebastian Risi: IT University of Copenhagen to modl.ai [primary affiliation change]
• Sam Snodgrass: Northeastern University (USA) to modl.ai (Denmark)

August 2019

• Rachelyn Farrell: University of New Orleans to University of Kentucky
• Britton Horn*: Northeastern University to Trinity University
• Eric Kaltman: Carnegie Mellon University to California State University Channel Islands
• Yubo Kou: Florida State University to Pennsylvania State University
• Elisa D. Mekler: University of Basel (Switzerland) to Aalto University (Finland)

July 2019

• David Thue: Reykjavik University (Iceland) to Carleton University (Canada)
• Stephen G. Ware: University of New Orleans to University of Kentucky

June 2019

• Adrian David Cheok: Imagineering Institute to Independent/Other

May 2019

• Alessandro Canossa: Ubisoft to Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
• Joshua A. Fisher*: Georgia Institute of Technology to Columbia College Chicago
• Christoffer Holmgård: Northeastern University (USA) to modl.ai (Denmark)
• Fernando de Mesentier Silva: Independent/Other to Electronic Arts

April 2019

• Kyung-Joong Kim: Sejong University to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
• Doris C. Rusch: DePaul University (USA) to Uppsala University (Sweden)

January 2019

• Alena Denisova: Swansea University to City University of London
• Markus Eger*: North Carolina State University (USA) to University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
• Swen E. Gaudl: Falmouth University to University of Plymouth
• Benjamin Kenwright: De Montfort University to Heriot-Watt University
• Siming Liu: University of Nevada Reno to Missouri State University
• Mark J. Nelson: Falmouth University (UK) to American University (USA) [that's me!]
• Christoph Salge: New York University (USA) to University of Hertfordshire (UK) [returning from secondment]
• Marius Stanescu*: University of Alberta (Canada) to Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania)
• Matthew Stephenson*: Australian National University (Australia) to Maastricht University (Netherlands)

December 2018

• Abdallah Saffidine: Australian National University to University of New South Wales

November 2018

• Adrian David Cheok: City University of London (UK) to Imagineering Institute (Malaysia) [primary affiliation change]
• Michael Cook: Falmouth University to Queen Mary University of London
• Mike Preuss: University of Münster (Germany) to Leiden University (Netherlands)
• Günter Wallner: University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria) to Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)

October 2018

• Wojciech Jaskowski: Poznan University of Technology (Poland) to NNAISENSE (Switzerland)
• James Ryan*: University of California Santa Cruz to BBN Technologies
• Christian Thurau: Twenty Billion Neurons to Independent/Other

September 2018

• Max Birk*: University of Saskatchewan (Canada) to Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
• April Grow*: University of California Santa Cruz (USA) to Goldsmiths University of London (UK)
• Andrew Nealen: New York University to University of Southern California

August 2018

• Hendrik Baier: University of York (UK) to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)
• Sharon Lynn Chu: Texas A&M to University of Florida
• Simon Colton: Falmouth University to Queen Mary University of London
• Jeremy Gow: Goldsmiths University of London to Queen Mary University of London
• Lindsay D. Grace: American University to University of Miami
• Dominic Kao*: Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Purdue University
• Yubo Kou: Purdue University to Florida State University
• Peter A. Mawhorter: Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Wellesley College
• John Murray*: University of California Santa Cruz to University of Central Florida
• Joseph C. Osborn*: University of California Santa Cruz to Pomona College
• Nathan R. Sturtevant: University of Denver (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Anne Sullivan: University of Central Florida to Georgia Institute of Technology
• Adam Summerville*: University of California Santa Cruz to California State Polytechnic University Pomona
• David R. Winer*: University of Utah to Independent/Other

July 2018

• Fernando de Mesentier Silva*: New York University to Independent/Other

June 2018

• Ben G. Weber: Independent/Other to Zynga

April 2018

• Christopher A. Ballinger: Blind Squirrel Games to Soar Technology
• Cameron Browne: RIKEN (Japan) to Maastricht University (Netherlands)

* Indicates PhD student moving to faculty, postdoc, or industry job