Timo is a computer scientist and researcher working on spoken dialogue and responsive interaction. Timo Baumann is a research associate and instructor in the natural language systems division at Universität Hamburg, Germany, with Wolfgang Menzel, focusing on incremental spoken language processing and especially the prosodic annd multimodal aspects of spoken language. Timo studied computer science and phonetics in Hamburg, Geneva and Granada, and received his master's-level diploma in 2007 for work at IBM research before heading to Potsdam University to work on incremental and projective processing in dialogue systems with David Schlangen. This work resulted in his PhD from Bielefeld University in 2013. Timo takes his bike to work no matter the weather and produces his own electricity as a shareholder in a photovoltaics cooperative.