Dipl. Psych Ansgar Bittermann lived in the Asian Melting Pot Hawaii for one year and was founder of the internet enterprise Phoenix Internet Research in 1996. Apart from his Psychology studies in Goettingen (2000-2006), he studied International Marketing at the Private University for Applied Sciences in Essen. He wrote his Diploma Thesis at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethnology in Vienna, mentored by Prof. Karl Grammer, about a new kind of computer-based analysis technique in non-verbal communication research.

All throughout his studies he also scientifically counselled the company B2EDU and worked as a research assistant and programmer in the area of the German-Chinese working memory research. After his Diploma in Psychology he became the project leader of an interdisciplinary research project in the Excellence-Cluster "CoTeSys" at the TU Munich. There, a group of scientists (sport science, engineering and psychology) experimented in the field of automatic emotion recognition through whole-body movements. Furthermore he lectured at the TU ("psychological experiments in robotics") as well as working for several EU projects.

In July 2007 he founded Global Emotion in order to create "Tools for the Development of Global Non-Verbal Communication Skills".