Head of the chair

Prof. Dr rer. biol. hum. Erich Schneider
Lipezkerstraße 47
03048 Cottbus
Room 9.104
Erich.Schneider(at)b-tu.de

Education

02/2012 Habilitation in Neurophysiology and Experimental Neurology.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences

07/2004 Ph.D. in Human Biology.
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Dept. Neurology
Degree: Dr. rer. biol. hum.

02/1997 Diploma in Physics.
University of Technology Munich
Degree: Dipl.-Phys. Univ (comparable to M.Sc.)

Professional and academic career
11/2019-Co-founder and member of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (LZKI)
www.lzki.de
10/2019-Member of the Cognitive Systems Research Cluster
10/2016-Dean of the Medical Informatics Curriculum
www.b-tu.de/medizininformatik-bs/
02/2016-Co-founder and Chairman of the Institute for Medical Technology.
Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering
and Information Technology
04/2014-09/2016Visiting Professor.
Chubu University College of Engineering, Nagoya, Japan
Dept. of Robotic Science and Technology
07/2013-Dean of the Informatics Curricula.
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
02/2012-Professor (W3) for Medical Information Systems.
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg
(before: Lausitz University of Applied Sciences)
07/2008-09/2014Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist.
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences
PI of research projects within the
"German Centre for Vertigo and Balance Disorders" (DSGZ)
Funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
01/2004-06/2008Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Dept. Neurology
"Cognition for Technical Systems" (CoTeSys)
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
01/2004-04/2007PI of 2 research projects within the cluster
"Bio-inspired Assistive Systems" (FORBIAS)
Funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation
11/1997-12/2003Research Scientist.
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Dept. Neurology
Awards and honours

09/2009 International Robot Award, RoboDays, Odense, Denmark.
Prize of 10.000 Euro awarded to Project EyeSeeCam
12/2009 Award for Best Paper in Biomimetics, IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Biomimetics ROBIO 2009, Guilin, China.

Projects

01/2020-12/2020 Artificial Intelligence in Instrumental Diagnosis, Stifterverband.
08/2016-07/2019 Social Virtual / Robotic Agents, Cunningham / Schneider,
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg.
Graduate Research School (GRS) Cluster: Cognitive Dependable
Cyber Physical Systems
11/2009-10/2014 Bio-inspired Technical Systems
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
"German Centre for Vertigo and Balance Disorders" (DSGZ)
01/2006-07/2013 Natural Visual Exploration and Interaction in Humans and Robots
German Research Foundation (DFG).
Cluster of Excellence "Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)", PI of 3 Projects
07/2006-11/2007 Gaze Statistics of Human Natural Exploration
Bavaria California Technology Centre (BaCaTec)
01/2004-04/2007 Eye-controlled Camera and Mobile Eye Tracking
Bavarian Research Foundation
Cluster FORBIAS, PI of 2 Projects

Patents

Brandt T, Glasauer S, and Schneider E.
Recording device for head-mounted image acquisition and method for controlling the recording device, 2004.
http://google.com/patents/DE10251933A1?cl=no