Mikhail Katliar obtained a MSc in Radiophysics from the Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus) in 2001. In 2013 he started working at the Max Planck Institute for Bilogical Cybernetics (Tübingen, Germany) as a research scientist. Since 2015 he is enrolled as an external PhD student at the University of Freiburg (Germany), working on real-time model predictive control for motion simulators.