Karlheinz Blankenbach

Karlheinz Blankenbach is full professor at Pforzheim University and has three decades of experience in displays. His activities resulted in many projects and about 200 publications. From 1988 until 1995 he was with a Mercedes subsidiary in Germany, developing displays and software. In 1995 he was appointed to full professor at Pforzheim University, Germany, where he founded the university’s Display Lab. His main R&D activities are automotive displays and LED systems. Blankenbach is a member of the Society for Information Display’s program subcommittee “Automotive/Vehicular Displays and HMI Technologies”, co-chair of the Special Topic "Outdoor Displays" and a member of SID’s “International Committee for Display Metrology”. He has served as a member of the board of the Displayforum (DFF) since 2000; after nine years as chairman, he was appointed to honorary chairman in 2020.