Christian Dondrup

Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. I finished my PhD in Computer Science in 2016 at the University of Lincoln, UK as part of the STRANDS FP7 EU project concerned with long-term autonomy for mobile robots. My thesis focused on human-aware navigation in ever-changing human populated environments and how qualitative spatial relations can be used to abstract from the metric world in order to achieve robust navigation approaches. Before that, I received the Diplom degree (equivalent to a combined BSc and MSc) in computer science in the natural sciences from Bielefeld University (Germany) in 2012. My thesis involved developmental robotics and speech recognition, focusing on human-robot interaction in tutoring scenarios. Before my employment as an Assistant Professor, I was a Research Fellow at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK and involved in the MuMMER H2020 EU project.

Current projects:

SPRING H2020 EU project (Co-I)