CV

Positions

since September 2026: Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Hosted by Giuseppe De Giacomo; euroFMX project
January 2025 – March 2025: Visiting Researcher University of Toronto Hosted by Sheila McIlraith
April 2023 – August 2026: Postdoctoral Researcher Chair for Machine Learning and Reasoning, RWTH Aachen University Hosted by Hector Geffner; ERC project on Representation Learning for Acting and Planning
July 2020 – October 2020: Robotics Research Intern Google X, Munich
October 2018 – January 2019: Visiting Researcher Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh Hosted by Vaishak Belle
April 2017 – March 2023: Doctoral Researcher Knowledge-Based Systems Group, RWTH Aachen University Supervised by Gerhard Lakemeyer; DFG project on Constraint-based Transformations of Abstract Task Plans into Executable Actions for Robots; associate of the DFG RTG UnRAVeL
April 2017 – June 2020: Team Lead Carologistics, RoboCup Logistics League Coordinated a team of 10 students and researchers; three national and three international RoboCup competitions (2x world champion)
October 2015 – March 2016: Autonomous Driving Research Intern Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America

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2017 – 2023: Ph.D. in Computer Science, summa cum laude RWTH Aachen University Thesis: Towards Bridging the Gap between High-Level Reasoning and Execution on Robots
2015 – 2017: M.Sc. in Computer Science RWTH Aachen University Thesis: Generating Macro Actions from a Plan Database for Planning on Mobile Robots
2012 – 2015: B.Sc. in Computer Science RWTH Aachen University Thesis: Continual Planning and Execution Monitoring in the Agent Language Golog on a Mobile Robot

2024: Friedrich Wilhelm Prize RWTH award for outstanding achievements in a doctoral dissertation
2024: Borchers Medal RWTH award for completing a doctorate with summa cum laude
2023: ICT Young Researcher Award, 1st prize Profile Area Information & Communication Technology, RWTH Aachen University, for outstanding research in information and communication technologies
2021: Best Tool Paper Award, SEFM For TACoS, a tool for MTL controller synthesis
2017, 2019: RoboCup Logistics League World Champion As lead of the Carologistics team
2017: Springorum Commemorative Coin RWTH award for graduating in the top 10% of computer science graduates

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2025: Kármán Fellowship RWTH Exploratory Research Space Supported a research visit to the University of Toronto
2018 – 2019: Research Scholarship German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Supported a research visit to the University of Edinburgh
2015 – 2017: Deutschlandstipendium German national merit scholarship

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