Ralf Bachmayer

Dr. Bachmayer is Professor for Marine Environmental Technology and Deep-Sea Engineering at MARUM – University of Bremen, Germany. His main research interests lie in the domain of marine robotics with a particular focus on unmanned marine systems. In particular he is interested in the design, control and networking of heterogeneous marine observation systems. Dr. Bachmayer received his engineering degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany in 1995. He worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the USA as a visiting researcher, received the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland and then worked as a Research associate at the Dynamical Control Systems Laboratory at Princeton University and was a Researcher at the National Research Council Canada Institute for Ocean Technology in St. John’s. He joined Memorial University in 2008 where he started the Autonomous Ocean systems Laboratory in 2009. He joined MARUM at the University of Bremen in the summer of 2017.