| Educational Background |
| 2013-now | Project Scientist |
| | National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA |
| 2009-2013 | Ph.D. Student |
| | supervised by Prof. Jan Peters |
| | Dept. Empirical Inference (Dept.Head: Bernhard Schoelkopf) and Dept. Autonomous Motion (Dept. Head: Stefan Schaal), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2009 | Diplomarbeit (Master thesis) |
| | supervised by Jan Peters |
| | Department Empirical Inference (Dept.Head: Bernhard Schoelkopf), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany |
| | Thesis Title: Motor Control and Learning in Table Tennis |
| 2003-2009 | Diplom-Informatiker/Bioinformatiker (German M.Sc. Computer Science/Bioinformatics) |
| | Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2003 | Abitur |
| | Neues Friedlaender Gymnasium, Friedland, Germany |
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| Research and Teaching Experience |
| 2007-2009 | Undergraduate Research Assistant |
| | Department Empirical Inference (Dept.Head: Bernhard Schoelkopf), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, German |
| 2007-2008 | Departmental student advisor, Informatik/Bioinformatik |
| | Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2007 | Lecture Assistant Undergratuate course:Mathematik II |
| | Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2006-2007 | Lecture Assistant Undergratuate course:Mathematik I |
| | Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2005-2006 | Lecture Assistant Undergratuate course:Informatik I |
| | Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
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| Paper Reviewing |
| 2012 | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) |
| | ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) |
| | European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL) |
| | IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) |
| | IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS) |
| | IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots ans Systems (IROS) |
| 2011 | IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots ans Systems (IROS) |
| 2010 | International Workshop on cognitive Information Processing (CIP) |
| | IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS) |
| 2009 | IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010) |
| 2008 | IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009) |
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| Commitee Work |
| 2003-2009 | Member of the Computer Science Student Senate (Fachschaft) |
| 2007-2008 | Student representative of the Examination Committee (Pruefungsausschuss) |
| | Fakultaet fuer Informations- udn Kognitionswissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2004-2007 | Student representative of the Curriculum Committee (Studienkommission) |
| | Fakultaet fuer Informations- udn Kognitionswissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
| 2005-2006 | Student representative at Faculty Meetings (Fakultaetsrat) |
| | Fakultaet fuer Informations- udn Kognitionswissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany |
References are available upon request.