Appointments

MPI-IS scientists are regularly appointed to professorships and independent scientist positions at renowned universities and institutes. A high number of appointments is considered to reflect the quality of research and training carried out at the institute.

Wenqi Hu becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong

01 February 2024

Wenqi Hu, group leader of the research group "Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots", is now Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute (CKSRI).

Appointments

Wenqi Hu becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong

Tianlu Wang becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii

Justus Thies becomes Full Professor at TU Darmstadt

Alexander Badri-Spröwitz becomes Associate Professor at KU Leuven

Majid Khadiv becomes Assistant Professor at TUM Munich

Aniket Pal becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Amir-Hossein Karimi becomes Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada

Alexis Block will be Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University

Yitian Shao is appointed L4 Professor at HIT Shenzhen

Falk Lieder becomes Assistant Professor at UCLA

Jörg Stückler becomes Professor at the University of Augsburg

Philipp Rothemund becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Georg Martius is appointed W3 professor at the University of Tübingen

Christoph Keplinger is Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Gokhan Serhat becomes Assistant Professor at KU Leuven

Amirreza Aghakhani becomes Assistant Professor at the Newcastle University

Hannah-Noa Barad becomes Assistant Professor at the Bar Ilan University

Gunther Richter has been appointed Honorarprofessor at the University of Stuttgart

Yitian Shao becomes Junior Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden

Dimitrios Tzionas becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam

Peer Fischer will become Full Professor at University of Heidelberg

Hakan Ceylan appointed Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic

Georgios Arvanitidis changes as Assistant Professor to TU of Denmark

Hojin Lee appointed Senior Researcher at ETRI in South Korea

Zhichao Ma appointed Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Hyosang Lee is a Cyber Valley Research Group Leader at the University of Stuttgart

Tingting Yu appointed Assistant Professor at South China University of Technology

Peer Fischer appointed Distiguished Lecturer

Stefan Bauer becomes Assistant Professor at KTH, Sweden

Mijung Park becomes Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Donghoon Son was appointed Assistant Professor at the Pusan National University

Sungwoo Chun will become Assistant Professor at Korea University

Vimal Kishore will join Banaras Hindu University

Abdon Pena-Francesch becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan

Wendong Wang becomes Assistant Professor at UM-SJTU Joint Institute

Hasti Seifi becomes Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen

Ad Spiers becomes Lecturer at Imperial College London

Yasemin Vardar wird Assistenzprofessorin an der TU Delft

Sebastian Trimpe becomes Full Professor at RWTH Aachen

Hamed Shahsavan becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo

Laura Na Liu heads Physics Institute at the University of Stuttgart

Metin Sitti becomes Affiliated Professor at ETH Zurich

Peer Fischer wird Gastprofessor am GIST in Südkorea

Isabel Valera becomes Full Professor at the University of Saarland.

Maria Wirzberger becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Aamir Ahmad becomes Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Hyeon-Ho Jeong becomes Assistant Professor at GIST, South Korea.

David Gueorguiev becomes CNRS Researcher in Paris

Siyu Tang becomes Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich

Hannah-Noa Barad will become Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University

Philipp Rothemund, senior postdoc of the Department Robotic Materials, has been appointed tenure track professor at the University of Stuttgart.