Johannes leads The Lighthouse Lab at Purdue University, working at the intersection of motor neuroscience and robotics to develop motor-inspired control algorithms for contact-rich manipulation.
Before academia he spent nine years at KUKA, contributing to the development and market launch of the LBR iiwa, one of the first torque-controlled collaborative robots, and later leading research on safe physical human-robot interaction. Several of his patents are integrated into KUKA’s commercial products.
His PhD, supervised by Stefano Stramigioli (University of Twente) and Neville Hogan (MIT), applied differential-geometric methods to safe and energy-aware physical interaction. It received the highest distinction and was a finalist for the Georges Giralt PhD Award.
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