Curriculum Vitae
Dirk Söffker |
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University of Duisburg-Essen
Chair of Dynamics and Control
Lotharstraße 1
47057 Duisburg
Germany
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+49 203 / 379 - 34 23 (Secr.)
+49 203 / 379 - 34 29 (direct) |
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+49 203 / 379 - 30 27 |
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soeffker@uni-due.de |
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Scientific Background
and Professional Experience
| 1963 |
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born in Hameln,
Germany |
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| 1982 |
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Abitur at the
Schiller-Gymnasium, Hameln |
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| 1982
- 1988 |
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Study of Mechanical
Engineering
at the University of Hannover |
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| 1988 |
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Diplom Mechanical
Engineering,
University of Hannover |
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| 1984
- 1989 |
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Studies of Philosophy,
Sociology and Politics
at the Universities of Hannover and Berlin |
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| 1988 |
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Scientific Assistant
, University of Hannover |
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| 1988
- 1989 |
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Research Assistant,
Technical University of Berlin |
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| 1989
- 1995 |
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Research Associate,
University of Wuppertal |
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| 1995 |
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Dissertation (Dr.-Ing.)
"Modeling and Control
of Elastic, Length Variable Robot Arms"
(P.C. Müller, W.O. Schiehlen) |
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| 1995
- 2001 |
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Senior Research Scientist ('Assistant Professor'),
University of Wuppertal |
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2001
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Habilitation (Privat Dozent)
"System-theoretic modeling of the knowledge-guided human-machine-interaction"
(P.C. Müller, G. Johannsen, O. Peters) |
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| since
2001 |
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Full Professor for
"Dynamics and Control"
at the Engineering Faculty, Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, since 2003: University of Duisburg-Essen |
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| since Dec. 2014 |
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Visiting Professor at the
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
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Lecturer at the
Faculty of Safety Engineering |
1991
- 2000 |
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Research trips
to or stays at
Bently Nevada Rotordynamics (1993)
Dept. of Mech. Engineering, MIT, Cambridge (1993)
Institute of Robotics, CMU Pittsburg (1995)
Dept. of Mech. Engineering, University of Michigan (1995)
Dept. of Mech. Engineering, PUC-Rio, Brazil (1997, 1999, 2013)
Dept. of Mech. Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Dept. of Mech. Engineering, Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China) (2006)
Dept. of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile (2006)
Dept. of Mech. Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) (2014-2015)
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1990
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Scholarship of
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf |
1983
- 1988 |
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Grants and Scholarships
by
German Research Council (DFG)
and
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
1990
- today |
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©
Söffker 2005
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