Yannik Löhr was born in Herdecke, Germany, in 1990. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2013 and 2015, respectively, from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in the field of Automation. Since 2015 he has been working at the chair of Automatic Control and Systems Theory at the Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests include model predictive control for heat and power supply systems and integrating machine learning techniques in model predictive control.