Cornelius Weber graduated in physics at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, and received his PhD in computer science at Technische Universität Berlin. Following positions were a Postdoctoral Fellow in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, USA; Research Scientist in Hybrid Intelligent Systems, University of Sunderland, UK; Junior Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany. Currently he is Lab Manager at Knowledge Technology, Universität Hamburg. His interests are in computational neuroscience, development of visual feature detectors, neural models of representations and transformations, reinforcement learning and robot control, grounded language learning, human-robot interaction, and related applications in social assistive robotics.