Professor
Head, Digital Science Center
ELLIS Fellow

Office: ICT 3N06
Phone: +43 512 507-53264
Email: Justus.Piater@uibk.ac.at
Key Fingerprint: 11E3 C051 85CB F149 7AA4 FDCA C068 CF60 2E30 1197

During the winter semester 2022-23 I am on sabbatical, first at the University of Trento and then at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Making robots learn to perceive and act with understanding

• Robot learning (concept learning, sensorimotor learning)
• Robot perception
• Robot grasping and manipulation

See the IIS homepage for more about our projects and research.

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2010–2019   Professor of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
2008–2009   Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
2007–2010   Associate Professor of Computer Science, Université de Liège
2002–2006   Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Université de Liège
2000–2002   Postdoctoral Research Scientist, GRAVIR-IMAG, INRIA Rhône-Alpes (Marie-Curie fellow)

1996–2001   Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
1996–1998   M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
1995–1996   Non-degree graduate student, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Fulbright fellow)
1991–1994   Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
1989–1991   Vordiplom, Computer Science, TU Braunschweig

2019–2019   Founding Head of the Digital Science Center of the University of Innsbruck
2015–2019   Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
2014–2017   Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Innsbruck
2014–2019   Vice Chair of the Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck