Biography

I worked on feedback-driven central pattern generators on a humanoid hopping robot for my Diploma thesis, with my supervisors Hartmut Witte at Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany and Luc Berthouze in Tsukuba, Japan at AIST.

At Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) I developed the YaMor II and the Roombots self-reconfiguring modular robot platform, for my PhD thesis at Auke Jan Ijspeert's Biorobotics laboratory. For my postgraduate studies at Biorob I (co)developed the quadruped robot series Cheetah-cub, Bobcat robot, and Oncilla robot.

I worked with Jonathan Hurst at Oregon State University (USA) on the ATRIAS (version 2.1) robot. I had an exciting research stay with Monica Daley at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC, London, UK) working on locomotion of the helmeted guineafowl, a mostly ground running bird. After, I worked with Metin Sitti at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. In October 2016 I became a Max Planck Research Group Leader at MPI-IS Stuttgart, and started the Dynamic Locomotion Group.