Prof. Dr. Edgar KÖRNER Chairman, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach am Main
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| Studied Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Cybernetics at Ilmenau Institute of Technology, Germany | |
| 1976-1984 | Assistant Professor and Senior Staff Researcher, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1977 | Dr.-Ing. in the field of Biomedical Cybernetics, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1984 | Habilitation in Biocybernetics, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1984-1987 | Research Fellow, Bioholonics Project of JRDC, Tokyo |
| 1987-1988 | Associate Professor, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1988-1992 | Full Professor in Biocybernetics and Head of Department of Neurocomputing and Cognitive Systems, Ilmenau Institute of Technology |
| 1992-1997 | Chief Scientist at Honda's R&D Wako Research Center, Japan |
| 1997-2003 | Executive Vice President and Head of the Future Technology Research Division, Honda R&D Europe |
| 2003-2010 | President of the newly established Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
| since 2007 | Co-director, Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, University Bielefeld |
| since 2010 | Chairman, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
| His research interest covers brain-like intelligence, with a special focus on self-referential control architectures, self-organization of knowledge representation, and autonomous robots. |
