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Academic Achievements
Coordinated significant projects such as FP7 AMARSi: Adaptive Modular Architectures for Rich Motor Skills and H2020 CogIMon: Cognitive Compliant Interaction in Motion, has numerous publications, and participated in various international collaborations.
Research Experience
Principal scientist at the Honda Research Institute Europe in 2006; appointed as apl. Professor for Neuroinformatics at the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University in 2008; fellow of ZiF group on 'Competition and Priority Control in Mind and Brain' in 2012/13; Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, UK from 2015 to 2021; since October 2016, Professor of Robotics at Technische Universität Braunschweig; Coordinator of H2020 CogIMon - Cognitive Compliant Interaction in Motion from 2015 to 2019; Fellow of Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan from March to August 2023; Co-Founder and CEO of Spin-off Gauss Robotics GmbH since February 2023.
Education
Diploma in mathematics from Bielefeld University in 1993; PhD (Dr. rer. nat) with a dissertation on 'Input-Output Stability of Recurrent Neural Networks' in 1999.
Background
Research interests include learning in robots, human-robot interaction and collaboration, humanoid robots, soft robots, robot imitation learning, robot learning and system architectures, neural networks, machine learning applications in robotics and automation, Industry 4.0, digitalization and the future of work.
Miscellany
Member of the Platform Lernende Systeme, AG Mensch-Maschine Interaktion; head of Kommission SYnENZ, focusing on technical, ethical, and legal challenges.