Kontakt
Universitätsstraße 32
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Raum: 2.307
Academia
- 2003 PhD in Robot Navigation from EPFL (Prof. R. Siegwart)
- 2004 Postdoc at CAS, KTH Stockholm (Prof. H. Christensen)
- 2006 Postdoc at IAS lab, University of Freiburg (Prof. W. Burgard)
- 2007 DFG junior research group leader grant, SFB/TR8, University of Freiburg
- 2010 Junior professor, University of Freiburg
- 2023 Full professor and Cyber Valley Endowed Chair for Autonomous Systems, University of Stuttgart
Industry
- 2003 Founder and head of own robotics start-up Nurobot, Zurich
- 2007 Senior Research Scientist at Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, CA (acquired by iRobot)
- 2015 Head of robotics research at Bosch as VP Chief Expert, Bosch Research, Renningen
- 2017 Listed as one of Germany's "100 Innovators," Handelsblatt Magazine
- 2022 Expert on robotics task force for the German Chancellor's Council for the Future
Some Highlights
- AE and PC member of virtually all relevant robotics conferences and journals (2003-2018)
- Coordinator, EU Project SPENCER (2013), Link
- Awards: Best paper (AMS 1996), Best student paper nominee (RSS 2013), Best SSRR paper nominee (IROS 2018), EURON George Giralt PhD award finalist (2004), ABB PhD award nominee (2003)
- Human-Robot Interaction Steering Committee (2013-2016)
- Co-founder of SpotMe SA (exit 2023)
- The results of my work are running on 5000+ robot systems in real-world applications on a daily basis. Example: AGV localization system (BlueBotics ANT), AGV SLAM system (Rexroth ROKIT), full navigation stack (Bosch Engineering for Hako)