Current Position

Project Scientist
Research: Robotics, Computational Models of Human Motor Control, Robot Learning Architectures, Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Learning by Demonstration, Manipulation and Human-Robot-Interaction
National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Educational Background
2013-nowProject Scientist
 National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
2009-2013Ph.D. Student
 supervised by Prof. Jan Peters
 Dept. Empirical Inference (Dept.Head: Bernhard Schoelkopf) and Dept. Autonomous Motion (Dept. Head: Stefan Schaal), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen, Germany
2009Diplomarbeit (Master thesis)
 supervised by Jan Peters
 Department Empirical Inference (Dept.Head: Bernhard Schoelkopf), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
 Thesis Title: Motor Control and Learning in Table Tennis
2003-2009Diplom-Informatiker/Bioinformatiker (German M.Sc. Computer Science/Bioinformatics)
 Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
2003Abitur
 Neues Friedlaender Gymnasium, Friedland, Germany
 
Research and Teaching Experience
2007-2009Undergraduate Research Assistant
 Department Empirical Inference (Dept.Head: Bernhard Schoelkopf), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, German
2007-2008Departmental student advisor, Informatik/Bioinformatik
 Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
2007Lecture Assistant Undergratuate course:Mathematik II
 Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
2006-2007Lecture Assistant Undergratuate course:Mathematik I
 Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
2005-2006Lecture Assistant Undergratuate course:Informatik I
 Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
 
Paper Reviewing
2012Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
 European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL)
 IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
 IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS)
 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots ans Systems (IROS)
2011IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots ans Systems (IROS)
2010International Workshop on cognitive Information Processing (CIP)
 IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS)
2009IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010)
2008IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009)
 
Commitee Work
2003-2009Member of the Computer Science Student Senate (Fachschaft)
2007-2008Student representative of the Examination Committee (Pruefungsausschuss)
 Fakultaet fuer Informations- udn Kognitionswissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
2004-2007Student representative of the Curriculum Committee (Studienkommission)
 Fakultaet fuer Informations- udn Kognitionswissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
2005-2006Student representative at Faculty Meetings (Fakultaetsrat)
 Fakultaet fuer Informations- udn Kognitionswissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany

References, etc.

References are available upon request.