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The Hague Area, Netherlands

Development of robotic system prototypes for space exploration including flight (space station) technical demonstration with synergies for earthbound use in maintenance and inspections systems - Enabling and leading a team of various engineering disciplines to achieve project and development goals - Planning, definition, coordination, and execution of all R&D activities in the lab including finances & staffing- Coordination of the complete technical development for ANALOG-1, a space mission where an Astronaut from the space station controlled a robot on the ground / METERON project- Managing external industrial contracts as technical officer to develop an Exoskeleton, a leg-training device and a prototype for enhanced robot control- Coordination of international cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the implementation of the SUPVIS-Justin project - a mission for supervisory control of a robot from space with autonomous components

The Hague Area, Netherlands

- Development of a rapid prototyping framework for automatic code generation and deployment from Simulink on Windows computers to embedded real-time Linux machines (Xenomai)- Design and development of the distributed communications baseline for all robotic devices in the lab based on data distribution service technology (DDS) - Design, development, and implementation of a communication architecture between a ground station and the international space station (ISS) used in the INTERACT and, HAPTICS-2 experiments- Support of R&D activities with software development for video streaming, control, user interfaces and integration of industrial components (EtherCAT)

The Hague Area, Netherlands

- Postdoc for Developing the Simulation of the Sampling Mechanism of the ExoMars Rover- Design, development, and implementation of a distributed real-time co-simulation of the ExoMars rover sampling mechanism (building the simulation in Simulink, Visualisation in OGRE 3D, custom components in C++ and real-time communication with DDS)- Supporting software developments for planetary rover prototypes (mostly C++, drivers for hardware and control algorithms)

Rostock Area, Germany

Software and Control Systems Engineer for Developing and Optimizing the Control of Wind TurbinesDevelopment and implementation of control algorithms for the compensation of reactive power of wind turbines and turbines in a cluster (Simulink, Bachmann PLC)Development of a workflow to build hardware-in-the-loop simulations (HIL) of the wind turbines (Simulink to integrate C++ code)Study of a concept for active damping of tower oscillations and pitch control

Rostock Area, Germany

Rostock Area, Germany

- Research for Ph.D. Thesis in Lab Automation with Focus on Liquid Dispensing in the Picoliter Range - Improving the volume measurement of liquid dispensers based on piezo technology (sensor and image processing with OpenCV)- Increasing the automation level, automated tuning to find the optimal dispensing parameters (C++/Ada95)- Handling university matters e.g. teaching assistant, writing grant applications

Ph.D., Automation Technology

Dipl.-Ing., Electrical Engineering