Georg Martius is leading the research group on Autonomous Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. Before joining the MPI in Tübingen, he was a postdoc fellow at the IST Austria and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen and his computer science degree from University of Leipzig.
His research focus is on machine learning for robotics, including internal model learning, reinforcement learning, intrinsic motivations, representation learning, differentiable combinatorial optimization and haptics.