Prof. Dr. Thomas Christaller

Das japanische Wort für Lehrer heißt "Sensei" und bedeutet direkt übersetzt "Der Vorangegangene". Und so verstehe ich mich als Aikido-Lehrer, Vortragender auf Führungsseminaren und Coach. Die eigene persönliche Entwicklung meines Gegenübers liegt mir am Herzen.

Co-founder and CEO of Bewegung & Lebenskunst as an enterprise to offer embodied spiritual personal growth based upon martial arts like Aikido and Iaido, and health systems like Feldenkrais, Qigong, Yoga.

Together with Stefan Wrobel we transferred the former GMD institute AiS (Autonomous intelligent Systems) into a successful Fraunhofer institute. Since summer 2007 Stefan Wrobel took over the position as Executive Director.

In a collaboration between the City of Kitakyushu and the former GMD-German Research Center for Information Technology the GMD-Japan research Laboratory was founded in 1998. From the beginning mobile robots were a major topic there. From 2001 to 2004 I redirected this laboratory completely towards Mobile Robots especially for sewer inspection and RoboCup. In 2004 the collaboration ended, some former members of GMD-JRL are now with the Kyushu Institute of Technology located on the same campus.

Working in the research project HAM-ANS (HAMburger ANswering System) funded by the German federal Ministery on Research and Technology.

Member of the Linguistics and Literature Science Faculty I worked on Natural Language Processing from an Artificial Intelligence point of view.

Artificial Intelligence, Language Understanding using so-called Augmented Transition Networks