Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Nexus funding for ZENiT Fellow Jonas Kuckling
We congratulate Jonas Kuckling – ZENiT Fellow from the Department of Computer and Information Science and also member of the Cluster of Excellence "Collective Behaviour" – who received funding from the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (CZS) in the amount of 1.5 million euros.
In his research project "Explainable Swarm Programming through Imitation Learning", Jonas Kuckling will focus on how imitation learning can be used to program robot swarms in order to deepen our understanding of natural collective behaviour. The aim of his work is to enable robots to learn new interactions just through observation and imitation in the future.
With the CZS Nexus programme, the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung supports postdoctoral researchers in setting up interdisciplinary research groups. The funding amounts to up to 1.5 million euros per junior research group over a period of five to six years. Research projects have to be located at the interface between two or more disciplines in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
More information about Jonas Kuckling:
More information on the CZS Nexus programme:
https://www.carl-zeiss-stiftung.de/programm/czs-nexus