Curriculum Vitae

Since July 2010

Research assistant, Research Group on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Engineering as Humboldt-fellow
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nebel

July 2008 - July 2010

Cooperate Researcher at ATR, Kyoto, Japan, as post-doctoral Humboldt- and JSPS-fellow
Advisor: Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro

July 2003 - July 2008

Research assistant and faculty, Artificial Intelligence Group at the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Ipke Wachsmuth

March 2005 - May 2005

JSPS Pre-doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, research project "Empathy in Human Computer Interaction"
Advisor: Prof. Helmut Prendinger

1999 - 2002

Student assistant, AI Group, Bielefeld University, Germany

June 2008

Graduation to "Doktor der Naturwissenschaften" (Dr. rer. nat., magna cum laude) at Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, title of doctoral thesis:
"WASABI: Affect Simulation for Agents with Believable Interactivity"
Advisors: Prof. Ipke Wachsmuth, Prof. Klaus Scherer

June 2003

Graduation to "Diplom-Informatiker" (Computer Science, summa cum laude), at Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, title of diploma thesis:
"Simulation of the emotion dynamics of an artificial, humanoid agent"
Advisors: Prof. Ipke Wachsmuth, Dr.-Eng. Stefan Kopp

1996 - 2003

Student of Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences at Bielefeld University with a second major in robotics, Special interest: Knowledge based Systems / Artificial Intelligence

Aug. 1997 - Sept. 1998

13 month of civil service

Artificial Intelligence:

Applying methods of Artificial Intelligence to Human-Machine Interaction

Affective Computing:

Simulation and recognition of affect based on multidisciplinary research to increase the believability of agents in social interaction and to support theory construction

Robotics:

Increasing the effectiveness of humanoid robots in real world applications

Cognitive Science:

Combining psychological and neurobiological findings in implementations of humanoid artificial systems

July 2010 - June 2011

Alexander von Humboldt-foundation return-fellowship

July 2008 - June 2010

JSPS post-doctoral fellowship and Humboldt fellow for research in Japan

March 2005 - May 2005

JSPS pre-doctoral fellowship (short-term) for research in Japan

February 2002

"3rd prize of the Körber foundation" with a student project