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Professional Experience
- 10/2021 – now
- Principal Engineer
- Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach / Main, Germany
- Former position: Senior Scientist
- 08/2011 – 09/2021
- Senior Scientist
- Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach / Main, Germany
- Former position: Scientist
- 07/2008 – 07/2011
- Ph.D. student
- Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, Bielefeld University, Germany
- 11/2007 – 04/2008
- Diploma student
- Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach / Main, Germany
- 10/2005 – 03/2006
- Internship student
- Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach / Main, Germany
- 07/2001 – 03/2002
- Basic military service
- 3. Fernmeldebatallion 230 (signal battalion), Dillingen / Donau, Germany
- Rank: Obergefreiter
Education
- 07/2008 – 07/2011
- Doktor-Ingenieur (equiv. to Ph.D. in Robotics)
- Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Dissertation title: A Whole Systems Approach to Robot Imitation Learning of Object Movement Skills [1]
- 10/2002 – 05/2008
- Diplom-Informatiker (equiv. to M.Sc. in Computer Science)
- Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
- Thesis title: Task learning of bimanual object handling [2]
- 08/1993 – 07/2001
- Abitur / German high school (level) certificate
- Zabelgymnasium, Gera, Germany
Honors
- 2008
- HRI Best Diploma Thesis Award, Honda Research Institute Europe