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General Information

Full Name Tanja Katharina Kaiser
Languages English, German

Research Interests

  • swarm robotics and multi-robot systems systems
  • automatic synthesis of swarm robot controllers using evolutionary algorithms and task-independent rewards
  • application of collective robot behavior in the real world

Education

  • 2022
    Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science / Evolutionary Swarm Robotics
    University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
    • summa cum laude
  • 2017
    M.Sc. in Computer Science
    Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • study focus: intelligent systems
    • application subject: psychology
  • 2014
    B.Sc. in Applied Computer Science
    Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

Academic Experience

  • 2023-now
    Senior Researcher
    University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany
    • heading the Multi-Robot Systems Satellite Lab that is part of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab of the Department of Engineering
  • 2023
    Ada Lovelace Distinguished Research Fellow
    Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig, Germany
  • 2022-2023
    Research Associate (Postdoc)
    University of Konstanz, Germany
    • Department of Computer and Information Science, Cyber-Physical Systems Group
    • Affiliate member of the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
  • 2017-2022
    Research Assistant (Doctorate)
    University of Lübeck, Germany
    • Institute of Computer Engineering, Service Robotics Group
  • 2014-2015
    Student Research Assistant
    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany
    • Language Technology Lab

Professional Experience

  • 2016-2017
    Mathematics Tutor
    lehrreich Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011-2014
    Dual Student
    Hewlett-Packard GmbH, Dornach, Germany

Open Source Projects

  • 2020-now
    ROS2swarm
    • A ROS 2 package providing a library of and framework for swarm robot behaviors.