Hendrik Heise completed a dual-study program in Electrical Engineering in cooperation with Phoenix Contact and received his Bachelor’s degree from the OWL University of Applied Sciences in Lemgo in 2020. He subsequently pursued a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Leibniz University Hannover, which he successfully completed in 2022. His master’s thesis at the Institute of Information Processing focused on attention-based re-identification for panoptic tracking. After graduation, he worked in industry for three years before joining the Institute of Information Processing as a research associate in May 2026. His current research interests are computer vision, trajectory planning, and applications of machine learning.