 Person Born: 1949 in Mannheim, Germany
Appointments - since 2001 Director of the research group, Industrial Applications of Informatics and Microsystems (IAIM), University of Karlsruhe
- since 2002 Director of the Research Center for Information Science (FZI), Karlsruhe
- 2001-1987 Full Professor at the Institute for Process Control and Robotic, Karlsruhe
- 2003-1987 Head of the research group IDS (Interactive Diagnosis- and Servicesystems) at the FZI (Forschungszentrum Informatik) in Karlsruhe
- 1986-1981 Associate professor, Institute for Process Control and Robotics, University of Karlsruhe
- 1981-1976 Research assistant at the Institute for for Process Control and Robotics, University of Karlsruhe
Synergistic Activities
- Director of the German collaborative research center Humanoid Robots. More than 40 scientists and 13 institutes are involved in this project. They belong to the Faculty of Computer Science, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, the Faculty of Information Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Physical Education as well as the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, the Forschungszentrum Informatik and the Fraunhofergesellschaft (IITB)
- IEEE-RAS chairman of the German chapter
- Chairman of the German Society of Information Science (GI), section 4.3/1.4 Robotic Systems
- Chairman of the German Association of Engineers (VDI-GMA).
- Editor in chief for the journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier
- General chair of the Conference on Multi Sensor Fusion for Intelligent Systems (MFI 01), Baden-Baden, Germany, 2001
- General co-chair of the International Conference on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 98), Karlsruhe, Germany
- General co-chair of the IEEE conference Humanoids 2003, Munich, Germany, 2003
- General co-chair of the The 6 th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems IAS-6, Venice, Italy, 2000
- Program chair for the IEEEInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 05), Barcelona, Spain, 2005
- Coordination member of the European Robotic Research Network (EURON)
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