Dr. Sendhoff studied physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum Germany from October 1987 to November 1993. During 1990 / 1991 he studied at the University of Sussex, Brighton as a scholar of the DAAD (German academic exchange agency). He graduated in November 1993 with a thesis in theoretical elementary particle physics. Bernhard finished his PhD. in May 1998 with a thesis entitled /Evolution of Structures – Optimization of Artificial Neural Structures for Information Processing./ He joined the Future Technology Research Division (FTR) at HONDA R&D EUROPE (Deutschland) GmbH in April 1999, while still being affiliated with the SONN research group at the Institut für Neuroinformatik,Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He worked as Deputy Division Manager, Chief Scientist and head of the EL-TEC research group at the Future Technology Research Division (FTR) at HONDA R&D EUROPE (Deutschland) GmbH from 2001 to 2002. Bernhard  has been Chief Technology Officer at Honda Research since 2003.