Short Bio

Dr. Maurice Rekrut is a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He graduated in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Saarland (HTW Saarland) with focus on Neural Engineering and received his MSc in 2013. Since then he has been working at DFKI in the Cognitive Assistants research department as a Software Engineer and was involved in various national and international research projects. In 2018 he changed to the researcher track to persue a PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger which he received in 2023 for the thesis “Leveraging EEG-based Speech Imagery Brain-Computer Interfaces”. His research focuses on Brain-Computer Interfaces and their application in real-world scenarios and he has been leading several national and international research projects concerning this topic as for example EXPECT, BISON or NEARBY. Since 2020 he is the head of the Cognitive Assistants BCI-Lab which is concerned with developing BCIs for out-of-the-lab use, in various application scenarios, from aviation and automotive, over health and well-being up to industrial use cases.

Work experience

A detailed list of research projects that I have been working on can be found here.

Senior Researcher

Department for Cognitive Assistants

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Head of Cognitive Assistants BCI-Lab

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Researcher & PhD student

Department for Cognitive Assistants

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Software Engineer

Department for Intelligent User Interfaces

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Education

PhD Student at Saarland University

Computer Science

Doctor of Engineering

Thesis topic: 

Leveraging EEG-based Speech Imagery Brain-Computer Interfaces

Software Campus program

Graduate of development program for future IT executives 

University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken (HTW)

Neural Engineering

Master of Science

University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken (HTW)

Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor of Science