Michael Lutter is a research scientist at Boston Dynamics. Within the Atlas team, he works on applying reinforcement learning to legged locomotions. Prior, he completed his Ph.D. supervised by Jan Peters at the Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) TU Darmstadt in November 2021. During his Ph.D., he researched inductive biases for robot learning. Michael also worked with ABB Corporate Research on a joint research project to evaluate the application of robot learning to industrial applications. He completed a research internship at DeepMind, NVIDIA Research and received multiple awards for his research including the George Giralt Ph.D. Award (2022) for the best robotics Ph.D. thesis in Europe and the AI newcomer award (2019) of the German Informatics Society.