Raymond Cuijpers

Raymond Cuijpers is associate professor Cognitive Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction. He graduated in Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) in 1996. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics of Man from Utrecht University in 2000. He did a postdoc on the role of shape perception on human visuo-motor control at Erasmus MC Rotterdam. In 2004 he did a second postdoc at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the context of the European FP6 project called Joint Action Science and Technology (JAST), where he developed computational models of joint action. In 2008 he was appointed as assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (NL). He has been project coordinator of the European FP7 project Knowledgeable Service Robots for Aging (KSERA) that was successfully completed in 2013. In this context he supervised post-doctoral and PhD students, who studied how robots can autonomously interact with humans for helping older persons. In 2014 he became associate professor Cognitive Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction.