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Assistant Professor
1/8/2016: Kirstin starts as Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, New York.
Member of Max Planck ETH
01/08/2015: Kirstin becomes a member of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems.
Among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2014!
18/12/2014: Work on collective construction robots and Kilobots voted among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2014 by Science.
Starting Postdoctoral Position
22/10/2014: Kirstin starts a postdoctoral position with Director Metin Sitti in the Physical Intelligence Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany.
Ph.D. Defense
14/9/2016: Kirstin defends her Ph.D. with Professor Radhika Nagpal in the SSR-lab at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
Paper published in Science
02/14/2014: Paper on termite-inspired robot construction teams appear in and on the cover of Science. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/754