Georges Giralt PhD Award for Bernd Henze
Bernd Henze received the prestigious Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best doctoral thesis in robotics in Europe. The doctoral thesis entitled "Whole Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots" was written in the Whole Body Control Group of the Department of Analysis and Control of Complex Robotic Systems. He completed his doctorate at the TU Munich. A significant part of the doctorate was developed as part of the EU project COMANOID.
The Georges Giralt PhD Award is a European dissertation prize awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of robotics. It is awarded annually to one or two doctoral students at the European Robotics Forum by the Brussels-based non-profit organisation euRobotics AISBL. The prizewinner's dissertation is published in the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series.
With around 280 member organisations, the awarding institution euRobotics AISBL represents both the academic and industrial sectors of European robotics. In addition, euRobotics AISBL acts as the official interface between the European Commission and European academic and industrial robotics.
The Georges Giralt PhD Award is open to all doctoral candidates whose dissertation in the field of robotics was successfully defended at a European university in the year of the competition.
This is the sixth time in a row that researchers from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics have received this international award. The RM award winners in previous years were:
- 2020: Cosimo Della Santina (Postdoc an der TUM, Lehrstuhl Prof. Albu-Schäffer und Gastwissenschaftler im DLR)
- 2019: Teodor Tomić (mit der Univ. Hannover)
- 2018: Daniel Leidner (mit der Univ. Bremen)
- 2017: Johannes Englsberger (mit der TU München)
- 2016: Alexander Dietrich (mit der TU München)
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