• Funding & Grants
• Academic Service
• Reviewing
• Robots in Action

Funding & Grants

• 2024
  OV6DP: Open Vocabulary 6D Pose Estimation, euROBIN Cascade Funding Project Funding · Principal Investigator · 60.000 EUR
• 2023
  Sondierungsprojekt Stadtreinigung, BMBF Project Funding · Proposal Preparation (Contribution), Implementation · 53.468,57 EUR
• 2022
  ANA Avatar XPRIZE Challenge, XPRIZE Foundation Award Money · Award Winner (with Max Schwarz, Christian Lenz, Bastian Pätzold, Andre Rochow, Michael Schreiber, and Sven Behnke) · 5.000.000 USD
• 2021
  Region56+ Award, Region56+ Award Money · Award Winner · 7.500 EUR
• 2017
  Sponsoring of PAL Robotics TIAGo Steel edition platform, PAL Robotics Sponsorship · Applicant · 75.000 EUR

Academic Service

• 2025 –
  Associate Editor IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• 2024 –
  Founding Member Center for Robotics, University of Bonn
• 2024 –
  Evaluation Committee European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) PhD Program
• 2024
  Organizing Committee RoboCup@Home RoboCup@Home Eindhoven, Netherlands
• 2021 – 2022
  Marketing Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2019 / 2020
  Member of appointments committee, Institute for Computational Visualistics University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2016 – 2022
  Teaching staff representative for head of institute sessions Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2018 – 2020
  League Co-Chair (RoboCup@Home), together with PD Dr.-Ing. Sven Wachsmuth RoboCup German Open (Magdeburg)
• 2019
  Organizing Committee RoboCup@Home RoboCup@Home Sydney, Australia
• 2018
  Technical Committee RoboCup@Home RoboCup@Home Montreal, Canada
• 2017
  Organizing Committee RoboCup@Home RoboCup@Home Nagoya, Japan
• 2016
  Organizing Committee RoboCup@Home RoboCup@Home Leipzig, Germany

Reviewer for KI (2026), IROS (2020–2026), ICRA (2019–2026), RO-MAN (2019–2024), RA-L (2019–2026), IEEE SPL (2023), IJCV (2023), Humanoids (2023–2024), SII (2024), THRI (2024), Avatar Workshop (2023–2024).

Robots in Action

• 
  Getting a beer from the fridge
• 
  Cleaning a toilet at World Robot Summit 2018, Tokyo
• 
  Human-robot collaborative manipulation
• 
  ICRA DJI Mobile Manipulation Challenge
• 
  Tidying up: robot pushing a chair