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Academic Career

1986 - 1992 Computer science study at the Technical University of Karlsruhe
1992 - 1996 Research Assistant, University of Karlsruhe, Prof. W. Menzel
1996 Dissertation 'Selbständig lernende neuronale Steuerungen', TH Karlsruhe, degree: summa cum laude
1997 - 2002: Research Assitant (C1) University of Karlsruhe
1998 Research Stay at CMU, Prof. Andrew Moore (July - October)
1999 Research Stay at GMD Berlin, Prof. Dr. K. Müller (Sept.- Oct.)
2002: Professor (C3) for Computational Intelligence, University of Dortmund
2003: Professor (C4) for Neuroinformatics, University of Osnabrueck
2006 Research Stay at USC, LA, Prof. Stefan Schaal
2006 Research Stay at Stanford University, Prof. Sebastian Thrun
2009: Professor (W3) for Machine Learning, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
2010: Co-Founder Cognit- lab for learning machines
2011: Research Stay at CSIRO, Sydney (Grant for Distinguished Scientists)
2013: Sabbatatical at AI startup in London(bought by Google in early 2014), now scietific consultant

Organizing Committee Simulation League RoboCup 2001
Organizing Chair Simulation League RoboCup 2003
RoboCup Symposium 2004
NIPS-Workshop on RL Benchmarking 2005
2006 Dagstuhl Seminar Multi-Robot Systems: Perception, Behaviors, Learning, and Action (together with U. Schwiegelhohn, Univ. Dortmund, H.-D. Burkhard, HU Berlin, M. Veloso, CMU)
2009 Dagstuhl Seminar Algorithmic Methods for Cooperative Distributed Systems (together with S. Feteke, Univ. Braunschweig, S. Fischer, U. Lübeck, Suri Subash, Univ. California)
2014 7th Workshop on Guided-Self-Organisation, Dec. 2014, Freiburg (together w. Joschka Bödecker)

Programm committee member for several annual conferences: IJCAI, NIPS, ICML, AAAI, AAMAS, ICRA, IROS, RoboCup Symposium, ECAI, IDA, …
Associate Editor/ Area Chair ICML 2009, ICRA 2009, IJCAI 2013
Reviews for several journals, among them: Neural Networks, Transaction on neural networks, Transactions on Robotics, Neuro Computing, IJNS, Transactions on Control and Cybernetics, …
DFG
EU

2009 Robot Learning Summer School, Lisbon
2006 Interdisciplinary College Günne (IK). Reinforcement Learning (4 lectures)
2005 UvA Amsterdam, Lecture on Reinforcement Learning for Control (1 lecture)
2003 ACAI RoboCup Camp, Bremen, Germany (4 lectures)
2002 European Summerschool on Cooperative Robotics, Lisbon, Portugal (4 lectures)

2012 Keynote Speaker, EWRL Workshop at ICML 2012, Edinburgh
2012 Honda, Offenburg
2010 Internationaler Orthopäden Kongress, Leipzig
2009 Dies Academicus, University Konstanz
2009 RoboCup Graz. Overview on MidSize League
2006 Juni, Niedersächsische Landesvertrung, Berlin. Soccer playing robots
2005 November, Vortrag bei IGDA (International Game Developpers Assoc), Frankfurt
2005 Juni, Interdisziplinäres Forum Heidelberg, Neurovisionen
2004 September, KI 2004, Ulm, Germany (Keynote Speech)
2004 April, Robotica 2004, Porto, Portugal (Keynote Speech)
2004 April, GIBU-Treffen, Schloß Dagstuhl, Dagstuhl, Germany
2004 February, Learning Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany
2001 Eunite Workshop, Tenerife, Spain
2001 Siemens Forum Munich
2000 Siemens Forum Berlin

2nd place Teaching Evaluation (Vorlesungsbewertung) Univ. Dortmund, WS 2003/04, 'Introduction to AI'
2006 prize of University of Osnabrück for research impact
Best paper Award, Fbit 2007
RL Competition, 2007, Cart Pole
RoboCup (Robotic Soccer):
- Simulation League 2D: 1st place World Championships (WC) 2005, 2007, 2008, 2nd place WC 2000, WC 2001, WC 2004, WC 2006, 3rd place WC 2002, WC 2003, 1st place German Open (GO) 2005, 2006, 2nd place GO 2001, GO 2002, 2003, 3rd place GO 2004
- Simulation League 3D: 2nd place World Championship (WC) 2005, 1st place German Open (GO) 2005
- Middle Size League: 1st place German Open (GO) 2005, GO 2004, Dutch Open 2005, 1st place Worldchampionships 2006 Bremen, 2007 Seattle, 3rd place 2008 Suzhou
1st prize Technical Challenge Award at RoboCup 2006, 2007 and 2008 Middle Size League