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Appointments

MPI-IS scientists are regularly appointed to professorships and independent scientist positions at renowned universities and institutes. A high number of appointments is considered to reflect the quality of research and training carried out at the institute.

Rachael Bevill Burns will become an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville

Rachael Burns

01 January 2025

Rachael Bevill Burns, a former Ph.D student and current postdoctoral researcher of the Haptic Intelligence Department, will join the University of Tennessee Knoxville in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

David Gueorguiev becomes Independent Scientist at UCLouvain, Belgium

David Gueorguiev

01 October 2024

David Gueorguiev, former postdoc and part-time research scientist of the Haptic Intelligence Department, is now an Independent Scientist at the Institute of Neuroscience of UCLouvain, Belgium

Caterina De Bacco

Caterina De Bacco

01 September 2024

Cyber Valley Research Group Leader has become Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Delft, Quantum & Computer Engineering

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Zhijing Jin will become Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto

Zhijing Jin

15 July 2024

Zhijing Jin, an ELLIS PhD student of the EI Department and ETH Zürich, has been appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Computer Science Department, starting from 2025. She will also hold a CIFAR AI Chair, and be a faculty member at the Vector Institute.

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Rongjing Zhang becomes Associate Professor at the Beihang University, China

Rongjing Zhang

15 July 2024

Rongjing Zhang becomes Associate Professor in the Biomechanics and Soft Robotics Lab at the Beihang University, China.

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Aarushi Bhargava becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Aarushi Bhargava

01 July 2024

Aarushi Bhargava is now Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

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Hyosang Lee becomes Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology

Hyosang Lee

10 May 2024

Hyosang Lee, former Postdoc and Research Scientist of the Haptic Intelligence Department, is now Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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Saekwang Nam becomes Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University

Saekwang Nam

01 March 2024

Saekwang Nam, alumnus of the HI Department, is now Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University, South Korea, Graduate School of Data Science.

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Wenqi Hu becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong

Wenqi Hu

01 February 2024

Wenqi Hu, group leader of the research group "Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots", is now Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute (CKSRI).

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Ziyu Ren became Associate Professor at Beihang University, China

Ziyu Ren

01 January 2024

Ziyu Ren has started as Associate Professor in the Biomechanics and Soft Robotics Lab at the Beihang University, China.

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Tianlu Wang becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii

Tianlu Wang

01 January 2024

Tianlu Wang, former Postdoc in the Physical Intelligence Department, is now Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, Department of Mechanical Engineering and leads the Soft robotics And Intelligent machines Laboratory (SAIL).

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Majid Khadiv becomes Assistant Professor at TUM Munich

Majid Khadiv

01 September 2023

Majid Khadiv, alumnus of the EI Department, becomes Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), School of Computation, AI Planning in Dynamic Environments

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Aniket Pal becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Aniket Pal

01 September 2023

Aniket Pal, alumnus of the PI Department, has started a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Institute of Applied Mechanics (MIB), Soft Machines and Robotic Systems

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Amir-Hossein Karimi becomes Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada

Amir Hossein Karimi

01 September 2023

Amir-Hossein Karimi, alumnus of the EI Department, joined the University of Waterloo, Electrical & Computer Engineering, as an Assistant Professor in Machine Learning. At the same time, he has joined the Vector Institute as a Faculty Affiliate.

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Justus Thies becomes Full Professor at TU Darmstadt

Justus Thies

01 September 2023

Justus Thies, group leader of the research group "Neural Capture and Synthesis" is now full professor for 3D Graphics & Vision at TU Darmstadt

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Alexander Badri-Spröwitz becomes Associate Professor at KU Leuven

Alexander Badri-Sprowitz

01 September 2023

Alexander Badri-Spröwitz, former group leader of the Dynamic Locomotion Research Group has moved to KU Leuven to become an Associate Professor for Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics.

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Alexis Block will be Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University

Alexis Block

03 July 2023

Alexis E. Block, an alumna of the HI Department, accepted a position at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering.

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Yitian Shao is appointed L4 Professor at HIT Shenzhen

Yitian Shao

01 July 2023

Yitian Shao, alumnus of the HI Department, joined Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Shenzhen, School of Computer Science and Technology, International Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, as a L4 Professor.

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Falk Lieder becomes Assistant Professor at UCLA

Falk Lieder

01 July 2023

Falk Lieder, head of the Rationality Enhancement research group, joins the Psychology Department at UCLA as Assistant Professor.

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Jörg Stückler becomes Professor at the University of Augsburg

Jörg Stückler

01 July 2023

Jörg Stückler, Embodied Vision research group leader, takes up a position as Professor for "Intelligent Perception in Technical Systems" at the University of Augsburg. He will continue to lead his research group at the MPI-IS on a part-time basis until June 2024.

Philipp Rothemund becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Philipp Rothemund

26 May 2023

Philipp Rothemund, senior postdoc of the Department Robotic Materials, has been appointed tenure track professor at the University of Stuttgart.

Georg Martius is appointed W3 professor at the University of Tübingen

Georg Martius

01 April 2023

Georg Martius, head of the Autonomous Learning research group, becomes W3 professor at the University of Tübingen, Department of Computer Science

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Christoph Keplinger is Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Christoph  Keplinger

02 January 2023

Christoph Keplinger, Director of the Department Robotic Materials, has been appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart.

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Katherine Kuchenbecker

08 November 2022

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Director of the Haptic Intelligence Department, has been appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart.

Gokhan Serhat becomes Assistant Professor at KU Leuven

Gokhan Serhat

01 October 2022

Gokhan Serhat, a Research Scientist in the Haptic Intelligence Department, joins the Mechanical Engineering Department at KU Leuven as an Assistant Professor.

Hannah-Noa Barad becomes Assistant Professor at the Bar Ilan University

Hannah-Noa Barad

01 August 2022

Hannah-Noa Barad, who is a Minerva Fellow, joined the Department of Chemistry at the Bar Ilan University, Israel, as an Assistant Professor.

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Amirreza Aghakhani becomes Assistant Professor at the Newcastle University

Amirreza Aghakhani

01 August 2022

Amirreza Aghakhani: Assistant Professor at the Newcastle University, Mechanical Engineering Department

Gunther Richter has been appointed Honorarprofessor at the University of Stuttgart

Gunther Richter

04 July 2022

Gunther Richter has been appointed a Honorarprofessor at the University of Stuttgart in the Institute for Materials Science within the Faculty of Chemistry.

Yitian Shao becomes Junior Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden

Yitian Shao

01 July 2022

Yitian Shao, Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow in the Haptic Intelligence Department, has begun his new position as a Junior Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden.

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Dimitrios Tzionas becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam

Dimitris Tzionas

01 June 2022

Dimitris Tzionas becomes Tenure-track Assistant Professor at UvA.

Peer Fischer will become Full Professor at University of Heidelberg

Peer Fischer

01 April 2022

Peer Fischer has accepted a Professor position at the University of Heidelberg as the Chair of Experimental Physics (Molecular Systems Engineering - IMSE II).

Hakan Ceylan appointed Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic

Hakan Ceylan

15 March 2022

has been appointed to the faculty of Mayo Clinic as an Assistant Professor where he will work at the interfaces of engineering, life sciences and medicine.

Hojin Lee appointed Senior Researcher at ETRI in South Korea

Hojin Lee

01 February 2022

The Electronics and Communications Research Institute (ETRI) is one of South Korea's major non-profit government-funded research institutes. ETRI conducts large-scale research projects in a variety of information and communication technologies (ICT) disciplines such as multimedia, computer networks, digital contents, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Hojin is now a member of the VR/AR content research section, a department in charge of creating unique VR/AR content for future computer-based applications. As a haptics specialist with expertise in real-world physical applications, Hojin will engage in various research projects, including the extension and integration of projection-based VR systems located at several Korean public libraries for entertainment and education.

Georgios Arvanitidis changes as Assistant Professor to TU of Denmark

Georgios Arvanitidis

01 February 2022

will start as an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Denmark, DTU Compute, Section for Cognitive Systems.

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Zhichao Ma appointed Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Zhichao Ma

10 October 2021

Zhichao Ma, Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow in the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Group, will join the School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as an Associate Professor.

Hyosang Lee is a Cyber Valley Research Group Leader at the University of Stuttgart

Hyosang Lee

01 October 2021

Dr. Hyosang Lee, a Research Scientist in the Haptic Intelligence Department, has begun his new position as a Cyber Valley Research Group Leader at the University of Stuttgart

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Tingting Yu appointed Assistant Professor at South China University of Technology

Tingting Yu

09 September 2021

Tingting Yu, who recently obtained her PhD in the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Group, joins South China University of Technology and the Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering as an Assistant Professor.

Peer Fischer appointed Distiguished Lecturer

Peer Fischer

02 September 2021

Peer Fischer has been appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the Sigma Xi scientific research honor society. His term will start 2022 and will run for two years.

Stefan Bauer becomes Assistant Professor at KTH, Sweden

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01 September 2021

Stefan Bauer becomes Assistant Professor at KTH, Stockholm, Division of Decision and Control Systems

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Mijung Park becomes Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Mijung Park

01 June 2021

Mijung Park becomes Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Faculty Computer Science, Machine Learning @ UBS

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Donghoon Son was appointed Assistant Professor at the Pusan National University

Donghoon Son

01 March 2021

Donghoon Son was appointed Assistant Professor at the Pusan National University, South Korea

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Sungwoo Chun will become Assistant Professor at Korea University

Sungwoo Chun

01 March 2021

Sungwoo Chun was appointed Assistant Professor at the Korea University, South Korea.

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Vimal Kishore will join Banaras Hindu University

Vimal Kishore

01 January 2021

Vimal Kishore will soon join Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, as a tenure-track assistant professor.

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Abdon Pena-Francesch becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan

Abdon Pena-Francesch

01 January 2021

Abdon Pena-Francesch will join the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in the USA as a tenure-track assistant professor.

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Hasti Seifi becomes Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen

Hasti Seifi

01 October 2020

Hasti Seifi has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.

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Wendong Wang becomes Assistant Professor at UM-SJTU Joint Institute

Wendong Wang

01 October 2020

Wendong Wang has joined the University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute in Shanghai, China, as a tenure-track assistant professor.

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Sebastian Trimpe becomes Full Professor at RWTH Aachen

Sebastian Trimpe

01 September 2020

Sebastian Trimpe has started as full professor for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen.

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Ad Spiers becomes Lecturer at Imperial College London

Adam Spiers

01 September 2020

Ad Spiers accepted a position as a Lecturer (tenure-track faculty job) in Robotics at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

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Yasemin Vardar wird Assistenzprofessorin an der TU Delft

Yasemin Vardar

01 September 2020

Yasemin Vardar hat eine Position als Tenure-track Assistenzprofessorin im Department für Kognitive Robotics an der Technischen Universität Delft in den Niederlanden akzeptiert.

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Hamed Shahsavan becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo

Hamed Shahsavan

01 August 2020

Hamed Shahsavan joined the University of Waterloo in Canada as a tenure-track assistant professor.

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Laura Na Liu heads Physics Institute at the University of Stuttgart

Laura Na Liu

01 July 2020

Laura Na Liu has recently become the new director of the 2nd Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart. She is also a Max Planck Fellow at the MPI for Solid State Research.

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Metin Sitti becomes Affiliated Professor at ETH Zurich

Metin Sitti

15 May 2020

Metin Sitti has been appointed Affiliated Professor of Physical Intelligence at the ETH Zurich,  Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

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Peer Fischer wird Gastprofessor am GIST in Südkorea

Peer Fischer

01 May 2020

Peer Fischer ist zum Gastprofessor am Bereich Elektrotechnik und Computerwissenschaft am Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Südkorea berufen worden.

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Isabel Valera becomes Full Professor at the University of Saarland.

Isabel Valera

01 April 2020

Isabel Valera has been appointed full professor at the University of Saarland, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

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Maria Wirzberger becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Maria Wirzberger

01 April 2020

Maria Wirzberger has recently started as Tenure Track Junior Professor with focus on teaching and learning with intelligent systems at the University of Stuttgart.

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Hyeon-Ho Jeong becomes Assistant Professor at GIST, South Korea.

Jeong Hyeon-Ho

01 March 2020

Hyeon-Ho Jeong has been appointed Assistant Professor at GIST, South Korea.

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Aamir Ahmad becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Aamir Ahmad

01 March 2020

Aamir Ahmad has been appointed Tenure-Track Junior Professor for Flight Robotics at the University of Stuttgart, Faculty for Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy.

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David Gueorguiev becomes CNRS Researcher in Paris

David Gueorguiev

01 January 2020

David Gueorguiev started in January 2020 as a CNRS Researcher at the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics in Paris.

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Siyu Tang becomes Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich

Siyu Tang

01 January 2020

Siyu Tang started in January 2020 as tenure track assistant professor at ETH Zurich. She remains Guest Scientist at our institute.

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Hannah-Noa Barad will become Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University

Hannah-Noa Barad

Dr. Hannah-Noa Barad, who is a Minerva Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow from the Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Group will join the Department of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University, Israel, as an Assistant Professor.

Philipp Rothemund, senior postdoc of the Department Robotic Materials, has been appointed tenure track professor at the University of Stuttgart.

Philipp Rothemund