David Dörner received his B.Sc. and M.Sc in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart in 2017 and 2019, respectively. During his studies, he also studied for 1.5 years in total at the Tokyo Institute of Technology under Prof. Fujita and Prof. Yamauchi. He held a research assistant position at the University of Stuttgart, working on hydraulic modelling. Since 2022 he has been with the Naval Architecture group at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. There he works on distributed control of underwater robots. His research interests include multi-agent coordination and control, learning and data-driven control, and decision-making with application to autonomous underwater vehicles.