Curriculum Vitae

Occupation


Scientific Career

since 05/2020

Senior Lecturer
Adaptive Systems Research Group (University of Hertfordshire)

teaching Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and conducting research in Developmental Robotics and Human-robot interaction

04/2019 - 04/2020

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary (ARQ, Queen Mary University of London),
Turing project Intuitive human-robot interaction in work environments

Human-robot interaction research, grant writing, workshop organisation

12/2015 - 04/2019

Research Fellow
Adaptive Systems Research Group (University of Hertfordshire),
HRI-BioPsy project

Designing and running studies on motor resonance between humans and robots

01/2014 - 06/2015

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Multimedia & Vision Research Group (Queen Mary University of London),
REVERIE project

Acted as software integrator for the final software protoype of the REVERIE project

Part-time work

since 01/2019

Visiting lecturer
School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science (University of Hertfordshire)

Module leader for 'Models & Methods of Computing Online'

09/2008 - 10/2013

Research Assistant
Adaptive Systems Research Group (University of Hertfordshire),
ITALK - Integrating action with language

Conducting HRI experiments with the humanoid iCub robot and data analysis

03/2003 - 08/2007

Tutor and Research Assistant
Institute of Neural Information Processing (Ulm University)

tutor for 'Introduction to neuroinformatics' and 'Theory of neural information processing', worked on boosting algorithms with a DFG project

Education


05/2008 - 11/2013

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
University of Hertfordshire, Adaptive Systems Research Group,
Robots that Say 'No': Acquisition of Linguistic Behaviour in Interaction Games with Humans

Accepted with no corrections

07/2005 - 11/2007

Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Ulm University, Institute for Neural Information Processing

Final grade 1.6

10/2000 - 06/2005

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Ulm University

Final grade 1.7

Grants


02/2023 - 05/2022

Charting the Current Limits and Developing Future Directions of Speech Interfaces in Robotics (PI)
Pump priming activity (workshop),
EPSRC UK-RAS Network