Welcome

I am a researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning working at CEA in Grenoble (France) since 2025. I am working on Human-Centric Digital Twins with a focus on the modeling of human decision-making. I am especially interested how we can adapt these decision-making models to novel situations and simulation scenarios.

In general my main interest are learning mechanisms. I am fascinated by the impressive learning abilities of humans and animals. We are able to adapt efficiently to new and diverse environments and tasks. I want to develop learning algorithms, that allow artificial systems such as robots to have similar learning abilities.

Short Biography

Prior to my current position at CEA, I served as a postdoctoral researcher at Inria in France, where I was part of the RobotLearn Team led by Xavier Alameda-Pineda at Inria Grenoble. Before that, I worked as a postdoc in the Flowers team under the guidance of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer in Bordeaux.

I completed my PhD in the Neural Computation Unit of Prof. Dr. Kenji Doya at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). Before embarking on my PhD journey, I earned both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrück in Germany. During my studies, I spent a semester abroad at Chuo University in Tokyo and undertook a research internship at OIST.

Before entering academia, I completed a three-year vocational training program to become a certified software developer in a German company. I also worked as an independent software developer during my undergraduate studies.

More Info

My research page lists some of my ongoing and completed research projects.

A chronological list of papers and other documents is on my publications page.

You can also find a list of software packages I worked on on my software page.