Dr. Tim Guhl

• Member of the management committee • Strategic development of all 5 plants on 3 continents • Lead Innovations Department incl. industrialisation of new product generations • Lead and revitalize the IT Department to significantly improve execution and implement a succession strategy to mitigate impending knowledge loss.

The department is part of Saint-Gobain Research Germany, one of the transversal R&D centers of Saint-Gobain. It consists of three groups: "Digital Business and Production", "Analytics and Simulation" and "Connected Products and Electronics".

Management of a team of 5 responsible for supporting the different teams and projects at the transversal R&D center with a great variety of accounting, controlling, logistical, administrative and quality topics.

Setting up and leading one of the departments of the transversal R&D Center SGR Germany of Saint-Gobain. The department acts as an internal consultant for automation, robotics and Industry 4.0 to the different Business Unites of Saint-Gobain including human-robot collaboration, mobile manipulation, machine learning, analytics, vision, plant connectivity, data analytics and connected operator aspects.

* Managing developers of various backgrounds and experience * Hiring and evaluation of staff * Product owner and project leader of “MAID - Mobility Assistant for physically impaired persons”; developed to TRL7; tests in target environment; devised strategy and business plans; led negotiations with potential partners * Development and implementation of strategy with the head of department * Support of development of the company technology roadmap * Transfer of technology to series development

* Management of collaborative, publicly funded and bi-lateral development projects throughout their life cycle * Projects focussing on research, the development of complex robotic systems, and uniting the European robotic communities behind a common roadmap * Project budgets of up to EUR 11 million * Teams with 40+ contributors * Enforced outstanding contributions and negotiated contingency plans with project partners, often my seniors in rank, age and experience * Selection and management of suppliers

Preparing for my viva.

Development of a system combining diverse visual clues and information from different types of sensors to allow a robot to perceive and interact with its environment.

Responsible for discipline, welfare and provision of social activities for 270 students.

Strategy and Market Leadership, Accounting, Financial Analysis, Value-Creation, Team Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness, Communication

The thesis of the PhD was that by fusing information gathered using existing, specialised vision programs with more general knowledge relating low-level visual features to each other known and unfamiliar objects can be detected respectively.

Final year project: Robot perception and control through the fusion of visual information with sensors of other modalities.