Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Swarm Intelligence' published by Springer Nature
Principal investigator of several major research projects, including:
- 'Swarm of Autonomous Sailboats', internally funded, 2023–
- 'Division of Labor in Robot Swarms with Minimize Surprise' under the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB), funded by DFG, 2023–2025
- 'ChronoPilot: Modulating Human Subjective Time Experience', EU H2020 FET-Open, 2021–2025
- 'WatchPlant: Smart bio-hybrid photo-organisms for environmental in-situ monitoring', EU H2020 FET-Proactive, 2021–2024
Authored and edited multiple academic books and conference proceedings, including:
- 'Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach' (Springer, 2018)
- 'Schwarmintelligenz' (in German, Springer Spektrum, 2019)
- Editor of proceedings for international conferences such as ANTS and DARS
Research Experience
Professor for Cyber-physical Systems, University of Konstanz, Germany, since 2022
Professor, University of Lübeck, Germany, 2017–2022
Professor, University of Paderborn, Germany, 2013–2017
Professor, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, Apr–Oct 2016
Postdoc, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria, 2009–2012