Selected Grants & Awards

Major Awards

Animal Welfare Award
(Dr Wilma von Düring Research Prize):
Katharina Hohlbaum (2019)

Humboldt Preis, Richard Schweitzer (2021)

Best Practice Communication Award in Animal Research (Tiervesuche verstehen), Christa Thöne-Reineke and Lars Lewejohann (2021)

Outstanding Associate Editor (IEEE Robotics Automation Letters), Guillermo Gallego (2021)

Lieslotte Pongratz Dissertation Award (The German Academic Scholarship Foundation), Richard Schweitzer (2022)

EACL’s Outstanding Paper Award, Alan Akbik (2023)

Werner Heisenberg Medaille, Oliver Brock (2024)

Grants

ERC Consolidator Grant, Martin Rolfs (2019)

Google Cloud Research Credit Grant, Robert Lange

Emmy Noether Grant, Alan Akbik (2021)

G-Research Grant for PhD Students in a Quantitative Field, Robert Lange (2023)

NSF AccelNet NeuroPac Fellowship, Friedhelm Hamann

Teaching grants from the Berlin Senate Fund (2024), Aravind Battaje, Mark Boon, Jonas Frenkel, Friedhelm Hamann, Benjamin Lang, Svetlana Levit, David Mezey, Nicolas Roth, Mohsen Raoufi, Olga Shurygina

Experimental Labs for Science  Communication 2021 (Berlin University Alliance), Oliver Brock, Dimitri Coelho Mollo, Solveig Steinhardt

X-Student Research Group Grants (BUA) Doris Pischedda (summer 2021), Pia Bideau (summer 2023), Pia Bideau (winter 2023/2024), Valentin Lecheval (summer 2024)

DFG Eigene Stelle Fellowship, Sean Ehlman

Research Fellow Chair MIAI, (Grenoble Alpes, France), Pia Bideau

SCIoI Research Grants, Nicolas Roth (2022), Aravind Battaje, (2023), Mohsen Raoufi (2023)

Other Awards

Best Workshop Poster Award (ICRA 2024), Heiko Hamann, Mohsen Raoufi, Pawel Romanczuk

Best Paper Award (ECVP 2021), Lynn Schmittwilken, Marianne Maertens

Best Poster Award (VISAPP 2023), Niek Andresen, Katharina Hohlbaum, Christa Thöne-Reineke, Lars Lewejohann, Olaf Hellwich

Student Travel Award (CECCO 2023 Conference), Robert Lange

VSS Travel Awards Olga Shurygina (2022)

Research

An overview of our scientific work

See our Research Projects