Current Members

David Schlangen

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sherzod Hakimov, 2022 –

PhD Students

Meng Li, 2023 –

Kranti Chalamalasetti, 2022 –

Pelin Çelikkol, 2021 – (on joint project with Jochen Laubrock, cognitive psychology)

Philipp Sadler, 2020 –

Brielen Madureira, 2019 –

Anne Beyer, 2019 –

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Jana Götze, 2020 – 2023; now in industry

Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, 2022 – 2023, now post-doctoral researcher at MIT

Maike Paetzel, 2021 – 2022, now at Disney Research

Sharid Loáiciga, 2020 – 2021, now University of Gothenburg

Sina Zarrieß, post-doc 2014 – 2019, now Professor at Bielefeld University (before that, Junior Professor at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena).

Julian Hough, post-doc 2014 – 2018, now Professor in Human Computer Interaction at Swansea University; before that Lecturer at Queen Mary University London.

Iwan de Kok, post-doc 2014 – 2018

Spyros Kousidis, post-doc 2012 – 2015, now at carmeq GmbH, Berlin.

Gabriel Skantze, post-doctoral visitor 2008, now Professor at KTH, Stockholm, and co-founder of furhat robotics.

PhD Students & Research Associates

Fabian Galetzka, 2018 – 2023, external PhD student working at Volkswagen Research in Wolfsburg; Mar 2023 completed & now full time at Volkswagen

Soledad Lopez, PhD student 2014 – 2022, since 2019 at Amazon, Cambridge, UK; and continuing work towards PhD at Potsdam; completed Dec 2022.

Robin Rojowiec, RA 2019 – 2020, now IBM Berlin

Nazia Attari, RA 2018 – 2020, now PhD student at Bielefeld University

Nikolai Ilinykh, RA 2017 – 2019, now PhD student at Gothenburg University

Ting Han, PhD student 2013 – 2018, now at AIST, Tokyo.

Casey Kennington, PhD student 2011 – 2016, now Professor at Boise State University, USA.

Okko Buß, PhD student (at Potsdam) 2008 – 2012, now at carmeq GmbH, Berlin.

Timo Baumann, PhD student (at Potsdam) 2007 – 2013, then at Hamburg University, then CMU, then again Hamburg, now Professor at OTH Regensburg.

… and a great number of great student research assistants at Bielefeld, and before that, at Potsdam.