Occupation

Scientific career

• from 10/2017 Robot house research coordinator (research fellow)
  Adaptive Systems Research Group (University of Hertfordshire)
  EPSRC Stragegic Equipment Grant Robot House 2.0

  Robot house research coordinator and technical manager

• 09/2017 - 04/2015 Post-doctoral researcher
  Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) and Applied Informatics (Bielefeld University)
  Large-scale project Cognitive service robotics apartment

  Coordination and arbitration of interactive resources

• 12/2014 - 01/2009 Full-time researcher
  Applied Informatics and Collaborative Research Cluster 673 Alignment in Communication (Bielefeld University)
  Project Interaction space

  Interaction space in applied social robotics

Part-time work

• 09/2008 - 10/2006 Research assistant
  Applied Informatics (Bielefeld University)

  Programming work for human-robot interaction

• 03/2012 - 08/2004 Student tutor
  Faculty of Technology (Bielefeld University)

  Courses in algorithms and datastrucutres, project development, computer vision, and pattern recognition

Education

• 02/2015 - 01/2009 Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.)
  Bielefeld University, Faculty of Technology - Doctorate program Intelligent systems
  Final grade very good
• 01/2009 - 10/2006 Master of Science (M.Sc.)
  Bielefeld University, Faculty of Technology - Masters program Intelligent systems
  Final grade 1.1
• 09/2006 - 10/2003 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
  Bielefeld University, Faculty of Technology - Bachelors program ``Bioinformatics and genome research''
  Final grade 1.5
• 07/2003 - 08/1994 High-school diploma (Abitur)
  Thomas-Morus Gymnasium, Oelde
  Final grade 1.8

Pending Grant Applications

• 2019 Assuring safety and social credibility - small feasibility project
  Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP)
  Lloyd’s Register Foundation, University of York

Rewards

• 2010 Best Student Paper Award
  International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2010 - Singapore
• 2009 Best graduation degree in Intelligent systems
  Faculty of Technology (Bielefeld University)

Additional Qualifications

Linguistic proficiency

• German - Mother tongue
• English - Very good knowledge
• Polish - Basic knowledge

Event organization and presentation

• 08/2018 Workshop co-organizer
  Social Cues in Robot Interaction, Trust and Acceptance
  International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
  Nanjing, China
• 10/2017 Publication chair
  International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)
  Bielefeld, Germany
• 10/2017 Workshop co-organizer and speaker
  Multicentric Interaction with Smart Homes and Home Robots
  International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)
  Bielefeld, Germany
• 11/2016 Main workshop organizer
  Embodied Interaction with Smart Environments
  International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
  Tokyo, Japan
• 08/2012 Track organizer and tutor
  Interaction Strategies in the Peripersonal Space
  Summer School 'Verbal and non-verbal interaction'
  CITEC, Bielefeld, Germany

Extracurricular education and training

• 07/2011 VVV RobotCub
  Summer School - Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
  Sestri Levante, Italy
• 10/2010 Structure of Cognitive Motion
  Summer School - Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
  Bielefeld, Germany
• 01/2008 Human-Robot Interaction
  Winter School - FP6 Project Cognitive Robot Companion (COGNIRON)
  Lausanne, Switzerland
  
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Core competences

• Scientific: Social robotics, non-verbal signaling, systems engineering, component coordination, resource arbitration
• Technologies: Distributed Systems (ROS, RSB, Yarp), Continous Integration (Git, Jenkins, Maven), Software Engineering (Netbeans, Linux)
• Languages: Java, C++, LaTeX, R, Matlab, Bash

Further experience

• Presentation: Exhibitor at CEBIT (Hannover, 2008), RoboDays (Odense, 2009), Automatica (Munich, 2010 & 2012)
• Teaching: Supervision of bachelor and master theses, organization of seminars and tutorials
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