Markus Buchholz
Research Scientist - Simulation Technology
Norway
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Top SchoolMarkus Buchholz is a seasoned robotics researcher and engineer specializing in underwater robotics, control systems, and AI, with a unique blend of academic rigor and industrial pragmatism. As a Postdoctoral Researcher in Underwater Robotics at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom, he advances motion planning and reinforcement learning for autonomous aquatic systems. His career spans founder and senior engineering roles across Buchholz Robotics, ABB Robotics, GE, Statoil, Rolls-Royce, Zivid, YASKAWA Europe, and Canrig Robotic Technologies, giving him broad subsea and robotics deployment experience. He combines hands-on software and hardware development with leadership and pedagogy, supported by a PGCertTL and ongoing AI/ML coursework through Udacity and Coursera. His work routinely integrates control theory, motion planning, and AI, including reinforcement learning, to push practical, reliable autonomous systems under challenging environments. Based in the United Kingdom, Markus brings entrepreneurial drive and a track record of delivering cross-domain robotics solutions from research labs to industrial settings.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Neural Networks for Machine Learning, Neural Networks for Machine Learning at CourseraDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Gdańsk University of TechnologyHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusNonodegree, Data Structures and Algorithms, Nonodegree, Data Structures and Algorithms at Udacity
Norwegian, English, Polish
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Github Skills (18)
serial-communication7
python-api5
api5
python35
python4
stem3
markers3
robotics3
rviz2
debugging2
moveit2
cplusplus1
cmake1
cpp171
cpp1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
markusbuchholz/Kinematics-KUKA
Sep 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
markusbuchholz/markusbuchholz.github.io
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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