I am currently a graduate student in the "Joint European Master in Space Science and Technology" programme, where I am writing my Master's Thesis on 'Multi-Robot Cooperation in Space Applications' at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in Finland. I just come home from from a 3 month research stay at the Intelligent Space Systems Laboratory of the University of Tokyo, Japan. In the first year of my MSc studies one semester was held in Würzburg, Germany (JMUW) and the second at the Kiruna Space Campus in northern Sweden.
The summer before I joined the SpaceMaster programme I was working as a programmer & researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, where implemented a depth perception algorithm for humanoid robotics (see paper). I received my BSc from the Vienna University of Technology where I am currently still enrolled as a grad student in the field of Computational Intelligence. My BSc thesis was about Processing and I did some programming for a project that uses Processing with the Tangible Table ToolkiT (4T) from the DECO research team.
My projects and generally things I am involved with can be found here! The SpaceMaster Robotics Team, which currently has David and me as team-members, website is also hosted here.
More about me can be found here! If you are interested you can also find my CV online here.
My soup (microblog) can be found here! (my Blawg, which sounds a little more tormented, either you reading or me writing, can be found there but it not much updated anymore. It also looks similar to the German bla, which is often used as blabla, which is just useless text.)
News
10-Jun-2009 - Busy finishing my thesis project as well as preparing for IJCAI, see SMRT Smurfs.
05-May-2009 - I will be working at the European Space Agency starting from September, yay! ;) In the Advanced Concepts Team! One year as Young Graduate Trainee! Awesomeness!
20-Apr-2009 - Too busy here at TKK too ;) I am also suffering from a bit of a cold :(
20-Mar-2009 - Too busy here at ISSL, paper is accepted at ARCS09 though, finally I will have to leave :(
6-Jan-2009 - My first day at the ISSL today, you can follow what I see there on a new blog I created: http://99days.Juxi.net
17-Nov-2008 - YAY! Tokyo here I come!! I'll be there Jan-March!
15-Nov-2008 - Just came back from the ASTRA 2008 Workshop, which was more a conference, but quite nice, not much info on multi-robot collaboration though...
25-Oct-2008 - After a quite stressful start here, because of bureaucracy work (I am still trying to go to Tokyo next semester...), I finally have time to say, yeah I am in Helsinki :) They have a quite good lab here for us at the department and everything seems quite good!
29-Jul-2008 - REEL-E flew today up to an altitude of 99,570 feet, that is more than 30 km(!). So THANK YOU to everybody who made that possible! More info SpaceMaster Robotics Team
11-Jul-2008 - Currently I am in Mexico (Monterrey) to finish the XGravler project of the SpaceMaster Robotics Team. It is now renamed REEL-E for the ballon launch at the end of the month on board the HALE2008 project.