Karlheinz Blankenbach graduated in physics from the University of Ulm, Germany, where he also received his PhD in 1988. Until 1995, he was with AEG-MIS, Germany, a subsidiary of DAIMLER. In 1995, Karlheinz was appointed as full professor at Pforzheim University, Germany, launching the university's display lab. His main R&D activities are on display systems, display hardware, and software, as well as display metrology. This resulted in many talks, papers, and
projects (governmental and industrial funded). He is a Senior Member by the Society for Information Display (SID), a member of the SID subcommittee “automotive/vehicular displays and HMI technologies” (AVDH) and is chairman of SID's “International Committee for Display Metrology” (ICDM) for "automotive displays". Karlheinz serves as member of the board to the Displayforum (DFF, a network of excellence for professional displays) since its foundation in 2020 and was chairman from 2011 to 2020 before become appointed as honorary chairman in 2020.