Third-Party Funded Projects
Optimized Laser Pulses for Free Electron Lasers (OPAL-FEL)
Funded by the BMBF, 2023-2026
PIs: Nihat Ay, together with Henrik Tünnermann (DESY), Wolfgang Hillert (UHH), Torsten Mans (AMPHOS GmbH)
Conceptual foundations for machine learning in engineering using the example of tailored laser pulse forming
Funded by the Helmholtz Graduate School DASHH, 2023-2026
PIs: Nihat Ay, together with Christoph Heyl (DESY) and Henrik Tünnermann (DESY)
Modeling a robot’s peripersonal space and body schema for adaptive learning and imitation (MoReSpace)
Funded by the DFG, 2022-2025
Project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) The Active Self (DFG, SPP 2134)
PIs: Dr.-Ing. Manfred Eppe; Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter
Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Wilfried Kunde
Information Integration in Predictive Processes: A Mechanistic Grounding of the Self
Funded by the DFG, 2021-2024
Second phase of the below-listet project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) The Active Self (DFG, SPP 2134)
PI: Nihat Ay
Learning Conversational Action Repair for Intelligent Robots (LeCAREbot)
Funded by the DFG, 2021-2024
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PIs: Dr.-Ing. Manfred Eppe; Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter
Ideomotor Transfer for Active Self-Emergence (IDEAS)
Funded by the DFG, 2020-2023
Project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) The Active Self (DFG, SPP 2134)
PIs: Dr.-Ing. Manfred Eppe, Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter
The Sensorimotor Architecture of the Self: Theory of Information Integration in Embodied Systems
Funded by the DFG, 2018-2021
Project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) The Active Self (DFG, SPP 2134)
PI: Nihat Ay
An information-theoretic approach to autonomous learning of embodied agents
Funded by the DFG, 2015-2018
Second phase of the below-listed project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) Autonomous Learning (DFG, SPP 1527)
PI: Nihat Ay
Mathematics of Multilevel Anticipatory Complex Systems (MatheMACS)
Funded by the EU, 2012-2015
Collaborative Project of the European Union within the Seventh Framework Program
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An information theoretic approach to autonomous learning of embodied agents
Funded by the DFG, 2012-2014
Project within the Priority Programme (Schwerpunktprogramm) Autonomous Learning (DFG, SPP 1527)
PIs: Nihat Ay and Eckehard Olbrich
Quantenstatistik: Entscheidungsprobleme und entropische Funktionale auf Zustandsräumen
Funded by the DFG, 2011-2013
Further information is available at the project page
and the DFG Project Page (German)
PI: Arleta Szkoła
Evolution of Networks: Modeling the complexity and robustness of evolving biochemical networks (Extension of previous VW Project)
Funded by the Volkswagenstiftung, 2010-2013
Further information is available at the project page
Evolution of networks: robustness, complexity and adaptability
Funded by the Volkswagenstiftung, 2007-2010
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Geometry and Complexity in Information Theory
Funded by the DFG, 2004-2008
PIs: Andreas Knauf and Nihat Ay
