Education:

11/2008 – 04/2015 “Electrical and Computer Engineering“ at KIT; B.Sc and M.Sc.

Job und internship:

2009 – 2015 Undergraduate Student Research Assistant at KIT in the subject areas:

• Development of tactile and proximity Sensors
• Development of form sensors using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) Sensors
• Investigating the thermodynamic behavior of Li-Ion batteries

11/2012 – 04/2013 Internship at Bosch Automotive Electronic, Reutlingen, Characterization of inertial sensors

Professional experience:

Since 05/2015 research assistance at IAR-IPR laboratory, KIT

Fields of research:

Sensor system for Human-Robot-Interaction:

• Capacitive proximity sensors with special resolution as interaction interface
• Large-area capacitive sensors for safe Human-Robot-Interaction
• Multi-modal capacitive sensors for grasping scenarios

Workshops:

www.proxelsandtaxels.org

• 1st Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics at IROS 2018 (Proceedings)
• 2nd Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics at IROS 2019 (Proceedings)
• 3rd Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics at IROS 2020: Towards Multi-Modal Cognition

Patent:

EP3166228 - SENSOR MODULE, SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPACITIVE AND SPATIALLY RESOLVED DETECTION OF APPROACHING AND CONTACT, USE OF THE SENSOR MODULE (pending)