Alen Turnwald

Prof. Alen Turnwald is a Professor at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), affiliated with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Department of Robotics. His expertise spans intelligent robotics, space applications, predictive control systems, and optimal motion planning. He holds a Dr.-Ing. (Doctor of Engineering) from TU Kaiserslautern and a Master's in Mechatronics from Leibniz University Hannover. Prior to his professorship, he served as Lead Engineer at e:fs Techhub GmbH (2019–2024) and held roles including Research Assistant at TU Kaiserslautern (2015–2019), Lecturer at Wilhelm Büchner University of Applied Sciences (2017–2018), and a DAAD research stay at Zhejiang University (2017).

Research & Teaching:

• Develops robotics solutions for space applications and advanced control systems.
• Supervised projects such as the Suricate Robot (a two-wheeled inverted pendulum), documented on GitHub and described in tutorials.
• Involvement in ROS (Robot Operating System) development for education and control systems.

Awards & Memberships:

• Recipient of the Deutschlandstipendium (2012).

Grants & Labs:

• Lead developer on projects like the Suricate Robot, focusing on simulation and hardware integration.
• Collaborated with institutions such as DLR (German Aerospace Center) and Zhejiang University.