Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya leads the Applications Research team of the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel. Her team in Munich develops spiking neuronal network based algorithms for neuromorphic hardware to demonstrate the potential of neuromorphic computing in real-world applications. She has 15 years of research experience in the fields of neural dynamics, embodied cognition, and autonomous robotics. She led a research group “Neuromorphic Cognitive Robots” at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland and the “Autonomous learning” group at the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Germany. She has a Diplom in physics with honors from the Belarussian State University and a Dr. rer. nat. degree in neural computation with summa cum laude from the RUB.