Markus Waibel

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BIO

Dr. Markus Waibel is a senior researcher in robotics working with Raffaello D'Andrea at the ETH Zurich's IDSC in Switzerland. He obtained his MSc in Physics from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria in 2003 and a PhD in Bio-inspired Robotics and Evolutionary Biology from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2007.

In 2006 Markus co-founded the popular Talking Robots interview series. In 2007 he helped initiate the routeRANK project and jointly ran routeRANK Ltd.'s business side with the founder from 2007-2008. In 2008 he co-founded the ROBOTS Association dedicated to providing free, high quality, educational information for the robotics community and the general public. He acted as the Association's first president and manager from 2008-2010, co-founding and directing the launch of its first flagship publication, the ROBOTS Podcast. In 2011 Markus co-founded Robohub, an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research, start-ups, business, and education from around the world.

Since April 2010 Markus is Program Manager of RoboEarth, a cloud robotics project to create a World Wide Web for robots.



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Waibel, M., Beetz, M., D’Andrea, R., Janssen, R., Tenorth, M., Civera, J., Elfring, J., Galvez-Lopez, D., Häussermann, K., Montiel, J.M.M., Perzylo, A., Schießle, B., Zweigle, O., and van de Molengraft, R. (2011) RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 18(2) pp. 69-82. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex]

Waibel, M., Floreano, D. and Keller, L. (2011) A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism. PLoS Biology, 9(5): e1000615. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000615. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex]

Waibel, M., Keller, L. and Floreano, D. (2009) Genetic Team Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(3) pp. 648-660. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex]

Waibel, M., Floreano, D., Magnenat, S. and Keller, L. (2006) Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 273 pp. 1815-23. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex]

Mattiussi, C., Waibel, M. and Floreano, D. (2004) Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes. Evolutionary Computation, 12(4) pp. 495-515. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex]

Waibel, M. (2007) Evolution of cooperation in artificial ants. Ph.D. Thesis, 2007. [detailed record] [pdf] [bibtex]


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Published: 03-Feb-2005/mw        Last update: 15-May-2012/mw