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As a partner, you can play an active role in shaping academic development. With an endowed professorship, you make a lasting contribution to research and teaching in a forward-looking field. As a company or institution, you can support the areas that matter most to you and create space for innovation, talent and social progress in your field.
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University Professorship for Modular Robotics
Michael Hofbaur has held the University Professorship for Modular Robotics at the Institute of Intelligent System Technologies since 2021. Alongside his role at the University of Klagenfurt, he is Director and Chief Scientist at Joanneum Research Robotics.
He completed his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Graz University of Technology in 1999 and was appointed Associate Professor of Automation and Complex Systems there in 2004.
From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting professor at the Space Systems Laboratory and the AI Laboratory at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, USA. From 2009 to 2014, Michael Hofbaur was Professor of Automation and Control at the private university UMIT.
Sponsor: Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund
University Professorship for Modular Robotic Systems
Roland Brockers has held the University Professorship for Modular Robotic Systems at the Institute of Intelligent System Technologies since 2022.
He completed his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Paderborn University in 2005 and has been researching image-based autonomous navigation for robotic systems for more than 25 years.
Since 2007, he has worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Brockers contributed to the development of the Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) system for the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and wrote the image-processing software used by Ingenuity for navigation. He currently leads the Surface Mobility Team of NASA’s CADRE mission, which is scheduled to send a team of mini-rovers to the Moon in 2026 to demonstrate autonomous exploration.
Sponsor: Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund
University Professorship for Human Movement Science
Jan Wilke has held the University Professorship for Human Movement Science at the University of Klagenfurt since 2022.
He studied Sports Science, with a focus on prevention and rehabilitation, at the University of Göttingen and the University of Granada. In 2016, Wilke completed his doctorate in Sports Science on the significance of myofascial chains for the movement system. He completed his habilitation in 2021 with a thesis entitled Acute Effects of Resistance Exercise on Cognitive Function and Their Potential Relevance in Interactive Sports, and was awarded the venia legendi in Sports Science.
He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam and Liverpool John Moores University. From 2012 to 2021, he worked as a research associate in the Department of Sports Medicine at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he led the research groups Fascia and the Movement System and Neurocognition of Movement. Jan Wilke is also Professor of Human Movement Science at the University of Bayreuth.
Sponsor: City of Klagenfurt
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