He is Professor of Intelligent Autonomous Systems at Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Since 2011 he has been Head of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Institute at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and since 2022, he is the head of the Department of Systems AI for Robot Learning at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

[1][2] In addition, he received an ERC Starting Grant in 2014 as well as numerous best paper awards.

[3] He was appointed Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2019 "for contributions to robot learning of dexterous motor skills".

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