Dr Niels Lohese
Loughborough University
Dr Niels Lohse graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Science Hamburg, Germany in 2000; obtained the M.Sc. degree in Technology Management from the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2001 and received the Ph.D. degree in Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2006.
He joined Loughborough University as Senior Lecturer in January 2014 where he is a member of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation. He previously worked as a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham from September 2006 until the end of 2013. His research interests are in the field of intelligent automation and include manufacturing system modelling, human-machine interaction, distributed control, diagnostics and design decision-support with a primary focus on modular and evolvable production systems and applications of artificial intelligence techniques in manufacturing.
Niels is a member of the IEEE and contributes to the Industrial Electronics Society, Robotics & Automation Society and the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Industrial Agents. Dr Lohse has received a number of awards for his work including the Outstanding Paper (2012) and Highly Commended Paper (2004) awards from the Emerald Literati Network for his publications in Assembly Automation.