Ich habe im Exzellenscluster Human Technology Center an der RWTH Aachen promoviert zu non-verbaler Kommunikation und kognitiver Linguistik. Ich habe an der Universidade de São Paulo für die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft als Gastprofessor gearbeitet und als Postdoc an der University of London. Davor war ich Moderator und Sänger eines Musikkabaretttrios und habe circa 20 Jahre Bühnenerfahrung.

Zwischen 2019-2026 entwickelte ich Kurse für die WeTeK gGmbH. Ich gebe Weiterbildungen zu interpersoneller Kommunikation, psychischer Gesundheit und Antidiskriminierung bei dem SFBB, Bundeswehr, Jobcentern und freien Trägern. Meine wissenschaftlichen Vorträge wurden in den letzten Jahren von Vorträgen zu Empowerment, Männlichkeiten und Social Media abgelöst:

Vorträge

2026 Vortrag
“Wie soll ich mit Heidi Klum und Andrew Tate Unterricht machen? Gesellschaftlichen Druck auf Jugendliche gesundheitsfördernd nutzen” auf Fachtag für Sekundarstufe, FEZ Berlin, SFBB.

2025 Vortrag

„Rituals for Resilience” bei Creative Mornings (weltweiter Kreativ-Community) Berlin

2022 – 2025 Keynote-Vorträge auf dem People and Culture Festival
2025 Vortrag zu Gruppenresilienz
2025 Workshop zu Adultismus (mit Rapperin Sookee)

2024 Klassismus-Panel mit Politiker*innen und Betroffenen

2024 Workshop zu „K.I. gegen Klassismus“
2023 Intrinsische Motivation in der Integrationsarbeit
2022 Team-Building und -Healing in diversen Teams

Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen

2020 Journal-Paper, Joue, G., Boven, L., Willmes, K., Evola, V., Demenescu, L. R., Hassemer, J., Mittelberg, I., Mathiak, K., Schneider, F., Habel, U.
Metaphor processing is supramodal semantic processing: the role of the bilateral lateral temporal regions in multimodal communication Corresponding. Brain and Language.

2018 Journal-Paper, Hassemer, J. & McCleary, L.

The multidimensionality of pointing. Gesture, 17:3. Auszeichnung: Open Materials badge.

2018 Journal-Paper, Hassemer, J., & Winter, B.

Decoding Gestural Iconicity. Cognitive Science, 42, 3034–3049. Auszeichnungen: Open Data and Open Materials badge.
Veröffentlichung von Daten, Stimuli, Methoden und Analyse-Scripts zu Hassemer & Winter: https://osf.io/6csnh/.

2018 Journal-Paper, Joue, G., Boven, L., Willmes, K., Evola, V., Demenescu, L. R., Hassemer, J., Mittelberg, I., Mathiak, K., Schneider, F., Habel, U.
Grasping or being the concept: an fMRI study on metonymy representations in coverbal gestures. Neuropsychologia.

2016 Journal-Paper, Hassemer, J. & Winter, B.

Producing and Perceiving gestures conveying height or shape. Gesture 15(3), 404-424.

Veröffentlichung von Daten, Stimuli, Methoden und Analyse-Scripts: http://tiny.cc/HeightShapeGESTUREdata.

2016 Promotionsschrift

Towards a Theory of Gesture Form Analysis. Imaginary forms as part of gesture conceptualisation, with empirical support from motion-capture data. RWTH Aachen University.

2016 Veröffentlichung Motion-Capture-Korpus
– Highspeed-Kameras, 3D-Daten und Data Scripts.
– Multi-Rater-Annotationen der Gestenformanalyse
– Anleitungen auf Englisch und Portugiesisch

– Template-Dateien in der Software ELAN (Max-Planck-Institut)
– Klassifikation aller Gesten in Gestenformanalyse

– Förderung: European Research Infrastructure project ‘CLARIN-D’

2011 Conference Proceedings, Hassemer, J., Joue, G., Willmes, K., & Mittelberg, I.

Dimensions and mechanisms of form constitution: Towards a formal description of gestures. In Proceedings of 2nd Conference of Gesture and Speech in Interaction, (GESPIN). September 5-7, 2011, Bielefeld.

2009 Master’s Thesis

Chief Pointing-Eye. Multiarticulatory metaphorical gestures expressing high. Master’s thesis, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

Wissenschaftliche Vorträge

2018 Hassemer, J. McCleary, L.

An account of the structural diversity in pointing gestures. 8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS8). Cape Town, South Africa.

2018
Give the future car a hand! 8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS8). Cape Town, South Africa.

2018
“The two sides of the gesture recognition challenge. Categorisation and direction.” Twenty Billion Neurons GmbH, Berlin.

2018
“The future of multimodal controls is in your hands” Volkswagen, Holistic user experience, Berlin.

2018
“Gesture classification and Gesture Control 2.0.” Volkswagen HMI predevelopment, Wolfsburg.

2018
“Pointing gestures, their form, and an application.” University of Münster, Situated Computing and Interaction Lab (sitcom), Münster.

2018
“Free gestures under control.” MBition, Mercedes-Benz Innovation Lab. Berlin.

2018
“A new generation of gesture control. More intuitive, effective and easily trackable.” Carmeq. Berlin.

2017
Iconicity in pointing gestures. Work in progress on a gesture typology. Types of iconicity in language use, development, and processing. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands.

2017 Winter, B. & Hassemer, J.
Profiling iconicity: Selective depiction in height and shape gestures. 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature. Brighton, England.

2017 Winter, B. & Hassemer, J.
Profiling iconicity: Producing and perceiving height and shape gestures. Conferência international sobre gesto e multimodalidade. Porto, Portugal.

2017
“Dynamic movements for dynamic cars. A new generation of gesture control.” BMW Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum. Munich.

2017
“Hand-Car Interaction. A new challenge for HCI.” Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Institut Mensch-Computer-Medien. Würzburg.

2017
“Gesture research as a source for experimental hypotheses.” Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Thomas Gunter, Hellmuth Obrig and colleagues. Leipzig.

2017
“Gesture control 2.0. A body interface for the future car.” Volkswagen Group Future Center Europe. Potsdam.

2017
“From theory to intuitive gesture control. Gesture research for the future car.” German Autolabs. Berlin.

2017
“Self-driving but gesture-controlled. Gesture research for the future car.” Volkswagen Digital:Lab. Berlin.

2016 McCleary, L. & Hassemer, J.

Finger tutting: Analyses of illusion-based finger dancing. 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS7). Paris, France.

2016 Hassemer, J. & Winter, B.

Height and shape gestures: Profiling different surface areas in competing gesture interpretations. 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS7). Paris, France.

2016
“Analyse multidimensional das formas gestuais: relevante para línguas de senais também?” Universidade de São Paulo, research group “Descrição da Língua de Sinais Brasileira”. Lab talk, host: Felipe Venancio Barbosa. São Paulo.

2016
“Gesture conceptualisation and the role of imaginary forms”. Lab talk, host: José Mario De Martino. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação. Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

2015 Salffner, S., Hassemer, J., Gut, U., & Seyfeddinipur, M., & Stein, N.

Prosodic and gestural marking of contrastive focus in Ikaan. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015. Cambridge.

2014
Gesture Form: Analysis and Typology. 6th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS6), July 8-11. San Diego, USA. (received stipend by the Executive Board of the International Society for Gesture Studies).

2013
Conceptualizing gesture form: Introducing a set of gesture form principles tested through 3D motion capture data analyses. Twelfth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta, Canada.

2013
Talmy’s topological dimensions of figure and ground applied to gesture (Theme session: Consolidating a Map of Talmyan Cognitive Semantics). Twelfth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Alberta, Canada.

2012
Gesture form principles in object description. Insights from participant reports and Motion-Capture analysis. Fifth conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS5). Lund University, 2012, Sweden.

2011 Hassemer, J., Joue, G., Willmes, K., & Mittelberg, I. Dimensions and mechanisms of form constitution: Towards a formal description of gestures. 2nd Conference of Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN). Bielefeld.

2011 Hassemer, J., Mittelberg, I.

Spatial dimensions as distinguishing parameter of gestural form. The Third Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III). University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2011 Hassemer, J., Mittelberg, I.

How hand shape and motion construct form in iconic and indexical gestures. Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS). Lund University, Sweden.

2010 Hassemer, J., Müller, C. & Mittelberg, I.

Marker analysis. Geometrical dimensions of gestural form. 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

2009 Hassemer, J., Müller, C., Jäger L., & Mittelberg, I.
Marker analysis: Geometrical dimensions at the basis of gestural form. ERS Impulse Workshop ‘Communication Technology and Brains’, RWTH Aachen University.

Gründungen

2025 – 2026 Antidiskriminierungsstelle

Stelle für Fallbegleitung, Antidiskriminierung und Change Management bei der WeTeK berlin gGmbH.

2022 – 2026 Arbeitsgruppe
Gründer der „AG Diversität und Antidiskriminierung“ an der Schule an der Victoriastadt, Berlin-Lichtenberg. Anzeige der Schulleitung bei Schulaufsicht und Landesombudstelle. Fallbegleitung betroffener Kindern/Eltern.

2019 – 2022 Startups
Chief Marketing Officer in den Startups:

– landopay (Finanz-Tech)

– yieldster (3D-Automatisierung)

2003 – 2017 Musikensemble
Musikkabaretttrio, Sänger, Moderator Geschäftsführung. Hauptkonzert-Locations: Grüner Salon der Volksbühne, Admiralspalast f101, Theater am Palais, bis zu 40 Auftritte pro Jahr.