Janine Matschek has studied system engineering and engineering cybernetics at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg until 2013. She is currently a PhD student in the laboratory of system theory and automatic control of Prof. Rolf Findeisen at the OvGU. Her research interests include path following with model predictive control, Gaussian processes and learning-based model predictive control, as well as force control and robotics in medical applications.