Franziska Ullrich
Franziska was born in Hannover, Germany, in March 1987. She completed her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich and subsequently consolidated her interest in robotics with completing her M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems and Control. In 2010 she was involved in a research project at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Australia, where she deepened her knowledge in field and space robotics. Franziska gained further practical experience during her internships at ABB Corporate Research in Västerås, Sweden and at MTU Maintenance in Zhuhai, P.R. China.
After completing her Master’s thesis at ETH Zurich on the development of a multidirectional force and position sensor for haptic interaction, she joined IRIS as a PhD student in January 2012.
