| 2011–now | Group Leader |
| | Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany |
| 2010–2011 | Post-Doc |
| | supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Fox |
| | Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Univserity of Washington, WA, USA |
| 2006–2009 | Ph.D. Student |
| | supervised by Dr. Carl Edward Rasmussen |
| | Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK |
| | Thesis Title: Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Gaussian Processes |
| 2006 | Master's thesis |
| | supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe D. Hanebeck |
| | Department of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
| | Thesis Title: An Online-Computation Approach to Optimal Finite-Horizon State-Feedback Control of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems |
| 2000–2006 | M.Sc. in Computer Science |
| | University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
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| Paper Reviewing |
| 2013 | ADPRL, AURO, ICRA, IJCAI, IROS, MLJ, NIPS, PAMI |
| 2012 | ACML, AISTATS, ECML, EWRL, HUMANOIDS, ICML, ICPRAM, ICRA, IJRR, NIPS, R:SS, Springer books |
| 2011 | Computers and Mathematics with Applications Journal, Machine Learning Journal, CDC, ICML, ICRA, IROS, NIPS, R:SS |
| 2010 | Int. Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR), AAAI, ACC, AISTATS, ICRA, NIPS, R:SS |
| 2009 | Autonomous Robots Journal, SCI Journal, CDC, ICML, ICRA |
| 2008 | NIPS, RO-MAN |
| 2007 | Adaptive Behavior Journal, IEE Electronic Letters Journal, IPSN |
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| References, etc. |
| References are available upon request. |