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Positions

PhD researcher and research associate — Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University of Münster · since May 2024 Deep RL locomotion controllers for quadrupeds in simulation; structured latent state representations; modular policy architectures for adaptive motor control; supervision of bachelor and master projects; teaching in robotics, reinforcement learning and neural networks.

Research assistant — DFKI, Plan-Based Robot Control, Osnabrück · Jan 2022 – Mar 2024 Hardware–software test infrastructure for multi-sensor perception evaluation; migration of a Gazebo simulation to NVIDIA Isaac Sim; RTK-GPS localisation for mobile platforms.

Research assistant — Bio-Inspired Computer Vision, University of Osnabrück · Jun 2020 – Oct 2021 Holonomic Mecanum-wheeled robot platform; latent representations in neural networks for explainability.

Student assistant — Biophysics, University of Osnabrück · 2016 – 2017, 2019 – 2020 Upconversion nanoparticles for sensitised optogenetics; canonical Wnt signalling complex.

Education

M.Sc. Cognitive Science (AI and Robotics) — University of Osnabrück · 2020 – 2024 · grade 1.0 Thesis: Holistic Benchmark for Visual and Range-based Perception Systems — 3D Human Detection Robustness against Solar Radiation

B.Sc. and M.Sc. Biosciences (Biophysics) — University of Osnabrück · 2016 – 2019

Awards

State Scholarship of Lower Saxony · 2018

Skills

Python · C++ · ROS 2 · Linux · Isaac Sim · Gazebo · reinforcement learning · machine learning · computer vision · multi-sensor data processing · Unitree Go1/Go2 · CAD