About me

Hello there! My name is Dominik, a research fellow working at ESA's Advanced Concepts Team. My research addresses the question how complex systems composed of individual, locally interacting components can optimise global properties of the system as a whole. Throughout my career, I had the opportunity to dive into many different disciplines, such as neuromorphic computing, graph representation learning, and materials science - all of which influenced my current research program greatly. In general, my work is at the intersection between biology, physics, artificial intelligence, self-organising systems, and space applications.

Interests: machine & deep learning, AI, biology-inspired computing, space, self-configuring / self-assembling systems, neuroscience, statistics & bayesian inference, physics

Hobbies: piano, guitar, yoga, bouldering, reading, traveling, hiking, games & movies

Some highlights

26.01.2024 We just opened the call for papers of the upcoming first edition of ESA's SPAICE conference on AI and space. I am extremely excited and honored to be one of the chairs of the scientific committee of SPAICE!

SPAICE Call for Papers Banner.

8.06.2023 I have been awarded a MSCA fellowship by the European Commission to continue my postdoctoral research! :)

18.01.2023: I went to London (via train!) to give an invited keynote presentation about my work and my team at ESA at the UCL AI Society :)

28.10.2022: I had the pleasure to talk about AI and Space at the Mafex Founders Camp AI Day in Marburg.

5.11.2021: I presented my recent work at SNUFA 2021, a really amazing online workshop on functional spiking neural networks!

1.10.2021: Space, the final frontier! I started my new position as a research fellow at ESA ESTEC :)

14.10.2020: One benefit of the pandemic: all kinds of presentations are recorded :) Check out these really nice presentations (Bernstein conference 2020, IEEE ISCAS 2020) by two of my former colleagues, showing theoretical and experimental results on neuromorphic computing that I contributed to during my PhD!

11.05.2020: I passed my PhD defense :) Below is a picture of me after the defense with the awesome doctoral hat my group built!

PhD hat

Image courtesy: B. Dold

1.05.2020: I started my new position as a research scientist at the Siemens AI lab in Munich!

19.12.2019: Don't miss this nice featured article "Order from chaos, chaos from order" by the Human Brain Project about the work of my colleagues and me.

1.11.2019: You can spot me on YouTube in this beautiful report by Bloomberg about brain computing!

28.10.2019: Together with two colleagues, I won the first prize at the 2019 International Collegiate Competition for Brain-inspired Computing (ICCBC 2019) in China with our submission "Why spikes? Exploring spike-based Bayesian inference for accelerated neuronal substrates"!

ICCBC picture

28.02.2019: I had the honor of presenting part of my work at the Cosyne conference in Lisbon as a talk!

Last update: 3.02.2024