Daniel Leidner

Daniel Leidner received his diploma degree in communications engineering in 2010, and his M.Sc. degree in information technology in 2011 with distinction from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany. In 2017 he received the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. His dissertation was honored with the Georges Giralt PhD Award as well as the Helmholtz Doctoral Prize. He is currently leading the Rollin Justin Team and the Semantic Planning Group at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany. As Co-Investigator of the Surface Avatar experiments, he investigates artificial intelligence in the context of astronaut-robot collaboration.