Dr. Maurice Rekrut is a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He graduated in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Saarland (HTW Saarland) with focus on Neural Engineering and received his MSc in 2013. Since then he has been working at DFKI in the Cognitive Assistants research department as a Software Engineer and was involved in various national and international research projects. In 2018 he changed to the researcher track to persue a PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger which he received in 2023 for the thesis “Leveraging EEG-based Speech Imagery Brain-Computer Interfaces”. His research focuses on Brain-Computer Interfaces and their application in real-world scenarios and he has been leading several national and international research projects concerning this topic as for example EXPECT, BISON or NEARBY. Since 2020 he is the head of the Cognitive Assistants BCI-Lab which is concerned with developing BCIs for out-of-the-lab use, in various application scenarios, from aviation and automotive, over health and well-being up to industrial use cases.
A detailed list of research projects that I have been working on can be found here.
Senior Researcher
Department for Cognitive Assistants
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Head of Cognitive Assistants BCI-Lab
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Researcher & PhD student
Department for Cognitive Assistants
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Software Engineer
Department for Intelligent User Interfaces
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
PhD Student at Saarland University
Computer Science
Doctor of Engineering
Thesis topic:
Leveraging EEG-based Speech Imagery Brain-Computer Interfaces
Software Campus program
Graduate of development program for future IT executives
University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken (HTW)
Neural Engineering
Master of Science
University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken (HTW)
Biomedical Engineering
Bachelor of Science