Georg Martius

Georg Martius is a Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and a full Professor at the University of Tübingen since 2023. His work focuses on autonomous learning in embodied agents, drawing inspiration from child development to create self-motivated robotic systems.

• Research Areas: Model-based reinforcement learning, intrinsic motivation, deep learning, haptic sensor development, and integration of combinatorial algorithms into neural networks.
• Affiliations: Former postdoc at IST Austria (Christoph Lampert and Gašper Tkačik groups) and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig).
• Contact: georg.martius@tuebingen.mpg.de
• Education: PhD in 2009 (Göttingen), Computer Science studies in Leipzig and Edinburgh.