Gregor Schöner is the Director of the Institut für Neuroinformatik at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany and holds the chair for Theory of Cognitive Systems there. With a background in theoretical physics he has worked in psychology, kinesiology, neuroscience, robotics, and computer vision, primarily as a theoretician, but working closely with experimentalists. He has held academic positions in the US, France, and Germany.

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