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.

Rachael Bevill Burns will become an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville

01 January 2025

Rachael Bevill Burns, a former Ph.D student and current postdoctoral researcher of the Haptic Intelligence Department, will join the University of Tennessee Knoxville in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

David Gueorguiev becomes Independent Scientist at UCLouvain, Belgium

01 October 2024

David Gueorguiev, former postdoc and part-time research scientist of the Haptic Intelligence Department, is now an Independent Scientist at the Institute of Neuroscience of UCLouvain, Belgium

Caterina De Bacco

01 September 2024

Cyber Valley Research Group Leader has become Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Delft, Quantum & Computer Engineering

Appointments

Rachael Bevill Burns will become an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville

David Gueorguiev becomes Independent Scientist at UCLouvain, Belgium

Caterina De Bacco

Zhijing Jin will become Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto

Rongjing Zhang becomes Associate Professor at the Beihang University, China

Aarushi Bhargava becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Hyosang Lee becomes Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology

Saekwang Nam becomes Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University

Wenqi Hu becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong

Ziyu Ren became Associate Professor at Beihang University, China

Tianlu Wang becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii

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

Justus Thies becomes Full Professor at TU Darmstadt

Alexander Badri-Spröwitz becomes Associate Professor at KU Leuven

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

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

Amirreza Aghakhani becomes Assistant Professor at the Newcastle 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

Hojin Lee appointed Senior Researcher at ETRI in South Korea

Georgios Arvanitidis changes as Assistant Professor to TU of Denmark

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

Sebastian Trimpe becomes Full Professor at RWTH Aachen

Ad Spiers becomes Lecturer at Imperial College London

Yasemin Vardar wird Assistenzprofessorin an der TU Delft

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

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

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