Manfred Hild is Professor of Digital Systems at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. Prior to that he held positions as Visiting Researcher at the SONY Computer Science Laboratory in Paris and as leader of the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory (NRL) in Berlin. He studied psychology and mathematics at the University of Konstanz where he received his diploma and switched then to computer science where he received his PhD in 2008 at Humboldt University in Berlin. His main research fields are sensorimotor control, humanoid robotics, and the design of distributed systems, with a focus on dynamical systems theory and recurrent neural networks.