Markus Ernst is currently a Master’s student at TU Darmstadt and is affiliated with the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), where he works as a voluntary research associate on self-supervised learning methods. Before he was a member of the FIAS team within the EU horizons 2020 project GOAL Robots.

Markus Ernst holds a master’s degree in physics from Goethe University Frankfurt, where he worked with professor Jochen Triesch on occluded object recognition with deep recurrent neural networks. Before joining the Triesch Lab, he obtained a bachelor’s degree under the supervision of professor Joachim Curtius at the Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. Markus studied meteorology, psychology and physics in Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Toronto.

 

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past projects

• Illustrations for the e-Learning project chemistry-lernbar (chapter 11, 12, 13)
• Master thesis revolving around occluded object-recognition in stereoscopic images using deep recurrent neural networks
• Spaghetti and moonrockets (“Spaghetti und Mondraketen”) – A popular science introduction to the Kalman Filter for high school students – pdf (German) Blogpost (English)

scienceslam

• scienceslam 2013 (German)

• scienceslam 2011 (German)