Birger Johansson
Pedagogue at Vattenhallen Science Center
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolBirger Johansson is a cognitive robotics researcher and pedagogue with over a decade of experience building embodied brain models and humanoid robots from Lund University’s Cognitive Robotic Lab, where he has served as director since 2019. He combines cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology and computer science to design and test real-world hypotheses using robots—co-creating the Epi robot and serving as a core developer of the open Ikaros brain-modeling infrastructure. His work spans AI, machine learning, vision, programming and 3D modeling, turning theoretical models into functioning robotic systems used in developmental cognition studies. Having held research and senior associate roles across Lund, Uppsala and UTS, he brings a rare mix of long-term academic rigor and hands-on engineering that informs public engagement as a pedagogue at Vattenhallen Science Center.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cognitive Science, PhD, Cognitive Science at Lund UniversityBachelor of Science, Electronical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electronical Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (4)
modeling10
infrastructure10
ros3
ros-driver3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
birgerjohansson/Epi
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:56 commits, 35 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 9 months
ikaros-project/ikaros
Sep 2012 - Jan 2023
An open infrastructure for system level brain modeling
Contributions:967 commits, 4 PRs, 484 pushes in 10 years 5 months
brainmodelinginfrastructurebrain-modeling
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