Georg Heppner
Head Of Robotics Department at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolGeorg Heppner is a robotics leader with 12 years of hands-on research and management experience, now serving as Head of the Robotics Department at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik in Karlsruhe. He combines deep technical expertise—spanning legged robots like LAURON, humanoid platforms, UAVs, ROS, behavior trees, multirobot systems and intelligent production—with strategic responsibility for acquisition, contracts, staffing and departmental finance. Georg progressed from research assistant to department head, supervising both industry and European-funded projects and negotiating partnerships across academia and industry. He holds an MS and a Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science from KIT (magna cum laude), bringing rigorous academic training to practical robot development and deployment. Less obvious: he maintains a rare blend of field-tested robotic systems experience and high-level portfolio management, enabling him to translate experimental prototypes into funded, multi-stakeholder programs.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Computer Science, magna cum laude, Dr.-Ing., Computer Science, magna cum laude at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Fachhochschule Wedel
English, German
Github Skills (15)
eagle9
crossword8
ros8
lists8
ide1
robotics1
eclipse1
composition1
industrial1
configurations1
servo1
stm32f41
meta1
java1
toolchain1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fzi-forschungszentrum-informatik/schunk_svh_driver
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Driver package for the SCHUNK SVH Five-Finger-Hand.
Contributions:108 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 4 months
crosswordeaglefingerfivehand
GeorgHeppner/stmbl
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 months
stm32f4servoservo-driver
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