PhD student positions:

One PhD student position is available in the Cognitive Robotics group at the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-University Berlin in Dynamic gesture analysis. This Early Stage Research Training position is funded by the European Union as part of the INTRO Marie Curie Initial Training Network which in total offers 10 positions in the interdisciplinary areas of Interactive Robotics; Cooperative Robot Learning, Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Intelligent Interface Design. INTRO involves 6 partners: Umea University, Sweden; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; University of the West of England, Great Britain; Space Applications Services, Belgium, and Robosoft, France.
To be filled: September 1, 2010 or earlier
Application due: April 15, 2010

One PhD student position is available in the Cognitive Robotics group at the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-University Berlin in Behaviour and intention recognition for human-robot learning. This Early Stage Research Training position is funded by the European Union as part of the INTRO Marie Curie Initial Training Network which in total offers 10 positions in the interdisciplinary areas of Interactive Robotics; Cooperative Robot Learning, Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Intelligent Interface Design. INTRO involves 6 partners: Umea University, Sweden; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; University of the West of England, Great Britain; Space Applications Services, Belgium, and Robosoft, France.
To be filled: September 1, 2010 or earlier
Application due: April 15, 2010

6 PhD fellowships (GRK 1589/1) are available in the Research training group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems”. The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin invites applications for fellowships of its new graduate school “Sensory Computations in Neural Systems” (GRK 1589/1). The scientific program of the research training group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems” is focused on sensory coding and perception.
Potential projects involve computational and robotic models to test hypotheses on e.g. task- and knowledge dependent decision making, imitation learning, behaviour recognition, mirror systems, sensorimotor interaction.
To be filled: October 1, 2010
Application due: March 15, 2010



Research assistant position (SHK 40h, only for students already studying at HU Berlin):
Die Kognitive Robotik Gruppe beschäftigt sich mit Mensch-Roboter Interaktion, Sensomotorik, und Verhaltenserkennung (Gestenerkennung, Imitationsverhalten).
Für die Unterstützung in Lehre und Forschung wird eine studentische Hilfskraft gesucht, die in aktuellen laufenden Forschungsprojekten mitarbeitet und mit der Programmierung und Erstellung von Experimenten beauftragt wird.
Insbesondere sind Experimente im Projekt „Werfen“ zusammen mit dem Institut für Psychologie gefragt (Programmierung und Versuchsaufbau) sowie Mitarbeit und Hilfe bei der Organisation im EU Projekt INTRO (Interactive Robotics Research Network).
Anforderungen:
• Studium der Informatik oder einem verwandten Gebiet (bzw. Psychologie mit sehr guten Informatikkenntnissen)
• Programmierkenntnisse in C/C++ oder Python
• Linuxkenntnisse
• Grundkenntnisse in Methoden der KI, embodied AI, Robotik
• Teamfähigkeit und Fähigkeit zur selbständigen Arbeit
• angeschlossenes Grundstudium