Joerg Rett was a Ph.D. student at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

He holds M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering/System Design and Technology from FH Darmstadt, Germany and University of Sunderland, U.K. From the former he also received his primary degree as Dipl.-Ing (FH) in Electrical Engineering – Automation.

He has worked mainly with Human Robot Interaction, Social Robots, Laban Movement Analysis, Robot Vision and Bayesian Approaches. Former PhD student at ISR, completed in 2008, researcher at SAP Research in Darmstadt since 2008 (researcher at market leader in enterprise application software company) Germany