Short biography:

• B.Sc. Mechatronics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• M.Sc. Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence, TUM
• Research stay at the Perception and Robotics Group (PRG), University of Maryland, USA
• Research stay at FORTH, Heraklion, Greece

• PhD at the Institute for Cognitive Systems, TUM 
   

  My PhD research focused on human-centered multi-robot coordination and was part of subproject R01 of the DFG Collaborative Research Center EASE (Everyday Activity Science and Engineering). I investigated causal intervention learning and multi-robot teleoperation to build scalable systems that respect operator needs, enable effective coordination of multiple robots, and lay the groundwork for incremental automation. I led the Cognitive Engineering team, taught courses on humanoid robotics, and supervised several master theses.

  My broader interest is robotics that derives from, and is built for, the human. I want to understand how people perceive, learn and act, and use that insight to design robots people can work with effectively.

  Research Interests:

• Human-centered robot design
• Cognition-inspired and bio-inspired robotics
• Grounding knowledge through causal intervention learning
• Robot assistance in everyday household tasks

• Virtual reality for teleoperation 
   

  Awards:

• 2020: Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE/RSJ IROS, for "The Robot as Scientist: Using Mental Simulation to Test Causal Hypotheses Extracted from Human Activities in Virtual Reality" (Uhde, Berberich, Ramirez-Amaro, Cheng)