Interactive Robot Perception & Learning

Sebastian Zach joined the PEARL group at TU Darmstadt as a PhD student in May 2026, advised by Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki. Within the the SIREN project, his research focuses on learning structured world models for contact-rich manipulation from self-play, combining multimodal sensing with physics-grounded dynamics over graph-based scene representations.

Sebastian holds a master’s degree in Autonomous Systems and Robotics from TU Darmstadt, with a focus on robotics and artificial intelligence. Before that, he completed a B.Sc. in Business Information Systems at DHBW Mannheim.