Matthias Behnisch received the diploma degree in Applied Computer Science from the University of Bielefeld in 2007. In his diploma thesis he did research on visual homing with adaptive optical flow techniques. Since 2008 he is a member of the Graduate School for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) and the Neuroinformatics Group at Bielefeld University. He is working on architectures that combine local reactive controllers with global planning schemes to accomplish complex tasks in dynamic environments.