Scholar
Alois Knoll
Google Scholar ID: -CA8QgwAAAAJ
Technische Universität München
Citations & Impact
Citations
25,365
H-index
68
i10-index
472
Publications
20
Co-authors
67
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 1,000 technical papers and guest-edited international journals.
- Participated in and coordinated numerous large-scale national and EU-funded collaborative research projects (sponsored by EU DG Research, DFG, German Federal Ministries of Economic Affairs and Education and Research, DAAD, and the Ministry for Research of North Rhine-Westphalia).
- Initiated and served as Program Chair of the First IEEE/RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2000).
- General Chair of IEEE Humanoids2003, Robotik 2004 and 2008 (Germany’s largest robotics conference at the time), and Program Chair of IEEE-IROS 2015.
- Currently Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Neurorobotics.
- Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Cyborg and Bionic Systems (a Science Partner Journal); now serves on its Advisory Board.
- Member of the EU’s highest IT advisory board, ISTAG (Information Society Technology Advisory Group), from 2007 to 2009.
Research Experience
- Faculty member at the Computer Science Department of TU Berlin from 1988 to 1993.
- Full professor and director of the Technical Informatics research group at Bielefeld University (Faculty of Technology) from 1993 to 2001.
- Board member of the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS, now IAIS) from 2001 to 2004; headed a robotics department that launched the 'Roberta' educational robotics program in 2002 to encourage girls in robotics.
- Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, Technische Universität München (TUM), since autumn 2001.
- Executive Director of TUM’s former Institute of Computer Science from April 2004 to March 2006.
- Served on the board of the Central Institute of Medical Technology at TUM (IMETUM).
