Yulia Sandamirskaya leads the Applications research team of the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel in Munich, Germany. Before joining Intel she was a group leader at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland and the Institute for Neural Computation at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her research targets neural-dynamic architectures for embodied cognition, demonstrated using neuromorphic computing hardware and robotic systems.