Current position
I am since March 2011 associate lecturer at the Chemnitz Institute of Technology, in the department of Artificial Intelligence of the faculty of Computer Science.Former positions
I was previously a postdoctorate fellow in the Psychology Department of the Münster University in Germany, under the supervision of Pr. Fred Hamker. This position was sponsored by the DFG HA2630/3 grant, titled "A neurocomputational systems approach to modeling the cognitive guidance of attention and object/category recognition" and the EU FP7-ICT Eyeshots (Heterogenous 3D Perception across Visual Fragments) project.My research work focused on the interplay of different cortex-basal-ganglia-thalamus loops in visual perception, working memory and goal-directed learning.
My PhD thesis was done at the LORIA laboratory in Nancy (Lorraine, France), in the CORTEX lab, headed by Dr. Frédéric Alexandre. The goal of the lab is to elaborate neuromimetic models of human cognition in order to make autonomous and adaptative agents.
The subject of my thesis was "Emergence de fonctions sensori-motrices sur un substrat neuronal numérique distribué", what can be translated in "Emergence of sensorimotor functions on a distributed numerical neuronal substrate". Manuscript can be downloaded here.
I was involved in two projects: the MirrorBot FET European project, which sponsored my thesis, and the ROBEA French initiative. I was ATER (teaching assistant) in 2005-2006 at the ESIAL engineering school of the University Henri Poincaré Nancy-I.
