Successfully passed tenure review at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in March 2025
Awarded an NWO AIned XS “High Gain-High Risk” grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and AIned Foundation for the project ETAPE: Embodiment- and Task-Aware Parameter Embeddings for Robotic Foundation Models
Appointed Editor for IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS) 2025
Organized a workshop on Morphology-Aware Policy and Design Learning at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
Multiple collaborative papers accepted at top-tier venues, including ICLR 2025 (Discrete Codebook World Models for Continuous Control), CoRL 2024 (Learning Interpretable Reward Models via Unsupervised Feature Selection), and EWRL 2024 (Following Ancestral Footsteps: Co-Designing Morphology and Behaviour with Self-Imitation Learning)
Presented work on co-design for snake robots at ICRA@40 (40th anniversary conference of ICRA) in Rotterdam, 2024