Short Curriculum Vitae
I am working as an academic advisor (Akademischer Rat) in the Lab for
Autonomous
Intelligent Systems at the University of Freiburg. I am an
associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. In my
research, I focus on probabilistic techniques in the context of mobile
robotics. A main area of my research is autonomous exploration in
combination with solutions to the simultaneous localization and
mapping (SLAM) problem. I am
also interested in classification and learning approaches including
scene analysis as well as in computer controlled cars, vision and
navigation techniques. See my publication
list and research page for further
details.
From November 2006 to September 2007, I was a postdoc in
Freiburg. Up to November 2006, I was a senior researcher at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule, ETH) in the Autonomous
Systems Lab in Zurich. I worked in the lab of Roland
Siegwart.
From 2002 to April 2006, I joined Wolfram
Burgard's lab in Freiburg. In April 2006, I finished my PhD
thesis entitled "Exploration and Mapping with Mobile Robots" at
the Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg.
Before my PhD, I studied physics and computer science at the
University of Marburg and received the bachelor degree ("Vordiplom")
in both disciplines. In 2000, I continued my studies in computer
science at the University of Freiburg and received my master degree
("Diplom") in 2002.
(short cv)
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