Robotics and Biology Laboratory

Ph.D.s

NameDateJob after the doctorateThesis
Vincent WallNovember 2023 Lerosh project at werk5 GmbHThesis
Mahmoud MabroukOctober 2023Co-founder and CEO of Agenta AIThesis
Kolja StahlOctober 2023Postdoctoral scholar at Rappsilber Laboratory, TU BerlinThesis
Előd PállJune 2023Lead Robotics Engineer R&D at Interactive Scape GmbHThesis
Arne SieverlingNovember 2018Realtime Robotics, BostonThesis
Ines PutzNovember 2018Softwareparadies GmbH & Co. System Solutions KG, BerlinThesis
Clemens EppnerSeptember 2018nVidia Research Labs, SeattleThesis
Rico JonschkowskiMay 2018Research scientist at Google AI (Google Brain Team), CaliforniaThesis
Roberto Martín-MartínFebruary 2018Postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, StanfordThesis
Sebastian HöferJune 2017Amazon Development Center GermanyThesis
Raphael DeimelJune 2017Group Leader MTI-engAge, TU BerlinThesis
Michael Bohlke-SchneiderDecember 2015Postdoctoral scholar with Juri Rappsilber, TU BerlinThesis
Ingo KossykAugust 2012German Aerospace Center (DLR)Thesis
Markus RickertMay 2011Research Group Leader at FortissThesis
Dov KatzSeptember 2011Postdoctoral scholar with Anthony Stenz, CMU
Oculus
Facebook
Thesis
TJ Brunette2011Postdoctoral scholar with David Baker, U WashingtonThesis
Brendan Burns2007Union College, New York
Google
Thesis

Masters

NameDateThesis
Aleksander GloukhmanJune 2023Thesis
Sumit PatidarSeptember 2022Thesis
Steve SollengruberDecember 2022 
Duc PhamDecember 2022Thesis
Friederike ThonagelMay 2022Thesis
Vipul MahawarAugust 2021Thesis
Amelie FroesslJuly 2021Thesis
Lukas SchattenhoferDecember 2020Thesis
Tessa PannenNovember 2020Thesis
Patrick EhingerMarch 2020Thesis
Gabriel ZöllerJanuary 2020Thesis
Marcel RadkeJune 2019Thesis
Marco MorikNovember 2018Thesis
Armin SchröderNovember 2017Thesis
Philipp BraunhartJuly 2017Thesis
Stefan JunghansMay 2017Thesis
Roman KolbertJanuary 207Thesis
Julius FaberOctober 2016Thesis
Kolja StahlFebruary 2016Thesis
Georg HieronimusNovember 2015Thesis
Georg FlickOctober 2015Thesis
Vincent WallApril 2014Thesis
Malte LorbachApril 2014Thesis
Peter LehnerMarch 2013Thesis
Nicolas KuhnenOctober 2012Thesis
Mahmoud MabroukNovember 2012Thesis
Stefan DörrJuli 2012Thesis
Georg BartelsMarch 2012Thesis
Stefan SchrandtJune 2012Thesis
Fabian SalomonMay 2012Thesis
Jonas DörrApril 2011Thesis
Florian KammDecember 2010Thesis
Lars RaschendörferSeptember 2010Thesis

Bachelors

NameDateThesis
Joel Simon FuchsNovember 2021Thesis
Marlon KupferMarch 2019Thesis
Friederike FischerApril 2017Thesis
Gabriel ZöllerAugust 2016Thesis
Stefan SchirmeisterMarch 2016Thesis
Georg HieronimusNovember 2015Thesis
Niklas GebauerSeptember 2015Thesis
Matthias IwanczikJanuary 2015Thesis
Manuel WöllhafJanuary 2015Thesis
Andreas OrtheySeptember 2012Thesis
Sebastian KochFebruary 2011Thesis

Scientific Staff

NameJob after RBO
Pia BideauMultidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence, Université Grenoble Alpes
Friederike Thonagel
Aditya Bhatt Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group, TU Darmstadt
Thomas HoffmannThe Unbelievable Machine Company
Divyam RastogiRobotics Engineer, wheel.me
Jessica Abele
Can ErdoganAmazon Development Centre, Germany
Wolfgang Brandenburg
Georgios FagogenisHerriott-Watt University, Edinburgh
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Maximilian LaiackerDLR Oberpfaffenhofen
Florian Kamm 
Dov Katz Oculus Rift
Nasir Mahmoodnasirmaan.com
José Antonio Álvarez RuizIntelligent Systems and Robotic, FU Berlin
Michael SchneiderTU Berlin, Chair of Bioanalytics
Tim Werner Blue Yonder

Student Assistants

NameDate
Adrian Pfisterer 
Juan Gomez Daza 
Matthias Matz 
Rosa WolfApril 2023
Vipul Mahavar 
Jason Harris 
Lukas SchattenhoferMaster, December 2020
Lukas HönigBachelor, November 2021
Max Winkelmann 
Rory Michele 
Ilia Krets 
Johannes Wortmann 
Lorenz Vaitl 
Jenny Berger 
Gabriel ZöllerBachelor, July 2016; Master, January 2020
Henning Ray 
Haydar Demirdizen 
Armin SchröderMaster, December 2017
Martin Baschin 
Fabian Heinemann 
Tim Helge Faß 
Samuel Glombitza 
Asmaa Haja 
Tom Koch 
Georg BartelsMaster, March 2012
Peter Büchler 
Jonas DörrMaster, August 2011
Stefan DörrMaster, 2012
Wouter van den Hof 
Sebastian KochMaster, December 2012
Dennis Loeben 
Serena Malavasi 
Andreas OrtheyBachelor, March 2011
Steffen PuhlmannMaster, December 2017
Lars RaschendörferMaster, June 2011
Christian Rodloff 
Stefan SchrandtMaster, June 2012
Rolf Schröder 
Adam Tetzlaff 
Carola Trahms 
Philipp Bartels 
Peter LehnerMaster, March 2013
Alexander Dolokov 
Callum Waters 

Visitors

NamePeriod
Philippe GiguèreJanuary - July 2019
Robert Lieck2013
Ron AlterovitzJune - July 2015
Chris BowenJune - July 2015
TJ BrunetteDecember 2009
Jeff ClevelandSummer 2009
Nikolaus Correll June - July 2015
Nicholas FarrowJune - July 2015
Lefteris GeorgiadisMarch - June 2011
Emily HorrellDecember 2010 - April 2011
Johannes Kulick2013 - 2016
Ingmar PosnerNovember 2015 - February 2016
Antonin RaffinMay - July 2016
Freek StulpJuly - October 2011
Wouter van den HofApril 2012
Dmitry Zarubin2013 - 2015