RICO MÖCKEL is a Ph.D student of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is working at the Institute of Neuroinformatics. He received a diploma (equivalent to MSc) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rostock, Germany. He did his diploma thesis at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Switzerland where he developed a STDP floating-gate synapse in CMOS VLSI.

Rico Möckel has been doing research since his fourth semester. He developed the electonics, control software and wireless Bluetooth scatter network protocol for a modular robot at the EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland. He worked in the field of sensor networks at the Institute of Applied Microelectronics and Computer Engineering at the University of Rostock, Germany and implemented software for control and visualization of processes in chemical reactors at the Institute of Automation at the University of Rostock, Germany.

At the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Rostock Rico Möckel was the speaker of the student representation, an elected student representative in the committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering as well as a student representative of the appointment commission for a professorship in the field of communication engineering.

September 2005: Our YaMoR article has received the "Industrial Robot Highly Commended Award" at the CLAWAR 2005 conference.

September 2005: I joined the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the ETH Zurich as a PH.D student.

July 20th 2005: I married the most beautiful and lovely woman in the world.