Nikolaus Correll has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2009 with joint appointments in Aerospace, Electrical and Materials engineering. He obtained his PhD from EPFL in 2007 and did a post-doc at MIT CSAIL where he developed the “Distributed Robot Garden”. Nikolaus is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award and a 2012 NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship on “Autonomous Food Production” and advises two NASA Space Technology Research Fellows on assembly of structures in space and human-factors of in-space horticulture.

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