From 1989 to 1991 she was leading a research group for machine learning at the German National Research Center for Computer Science at Bonn . In 1991, she became full professor at the university of Dortmund . Together with Professor Yves Kodratoff, she organized the first European Summer School on Machine Learning and gave a tutorial on this topic at the ECAI-88. The fourth European Working Session on Learning was chaired by her in 1989. Until 1994 she was the leader of the German special interest group in machine learning of the German Society for Computer Science.
Interests are in all kinds of applications of machine learning.
This also covers cognitive modeling of theory acquisition and revision. Learning in Human-Robot Communication . Volker Klingspor and Morik, Katharina, Learning Understandable Concepts for Robot Navigation . Towards Concept Formation Grounded on Perception and Action of an Autonomus Mobile Robot . Adaptive behavior and intelligent systems without symbols and logic.