Robert Trappl is lecturer of Biocybernetics and Bioinformatics and Professor of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Medical University and Lecturer of Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna.

He started performing and dancing at a five-week intensive course with Alan Wynroth, the resident trainer of La MaMa, NY, followed by several years of Contact Improvisation with Willi Dorner, several short workshops in different areas of dance with Jean-Yves Ginoux, Andrew Harwood, Marie Chouinard, Nina Martin, Ko Morobushi and others, and longer, intensive workshops or labs with Steve Paxton, Saburo Teshigawara and Mark Tompkins.

For three years now he has been giving lectures and seminars on “Love: Attempting a multidisciplinary approach” in the European Masterprogram of Cognitive Science, with many students from other curricula also attending.