Alexander Verl

Alexander Verl's research interests include robot systems, machine vision, measurement and testing, mechatronics for manufacturing units, simulation technology in manufacturing engineering, drive control for precision robotics, and reconfigurable large-scale robots and cable-driven parallel robots for construction.

Education and Degrees

• 1997 Dr.-Ing., Control Engineering, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, 1997
• 1991 Dipl.-Ing., Electrical Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Professional Career

• 2005 – present Full Professor and Head of the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart
• 2014 – 2016 Executive Vice President Technology Marketing and Business Mod-els of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• 2006 – 2014 Director of Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart
• 2005 – 2014 Full Professor and Director of Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW)
• 1997 – 2005 Founder and Managing Partner of AMATEC Robotics GmbH (since 2000 a subsidiary of KUKA Roboter GmbH)
• 1994 – 1997 Ph.D. Student at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Ro-botics and Mechatronics (Prof. Hirzinger, Prof. Grübel), Oberpfaffenhofen
• 1992 – 1994 Development Engineer at Siemens AG, Research Center Erlangen AUT 941

Collaborative Research Center

• SFB TRR 141: Biological Design and Integrative Structures – Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in Architecture