Current Lab Members

Cyrill Stachniss

Professor

+49 228 73 27 13 / 14 (direct)

Jens Behley

Lecturer (Privatdozent)

+49 228 73 60 190

Marija Popović

Visiting Prof. (TU Delft)

Perrine Aguiar

Robotics Engineer

+49 228 73 30 19

Birgit Klein

Secretary

(out of the office)

Thomas Läbe

Developer & Admin

+49 228 73 30 19

Kirsten Sadler

Secretary

+49 228 73 27 13

Garvita Allabadi

Visiting Ph.D. Student (UIUC)

Daniel Casado

Ph.D. Student

Cooperation with CARIAD

Yue (Linn) Chong

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 01

Tim-Felix Faasch

Tim-Felix Faasch

Cooperation with Bosch

Dikshant Gupta

Ph.D. Student

Cooperation with Mercedes Benz AG

Saurabh Gupta

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 10

Liren Jin

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 04

Haofei Kuang

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 03

Kun Lin

Ph.D. student

Cooperation with Woven by Toyota

Luca Lobefaro

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 2908

Meher Malladi

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 08

Rodrigo Marcuzzi

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 05

Elias Marks

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 03

Benedikt Mersch

Ph.D. Graduate

+49 228 73 27 11

Lucas Nunes

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 05

Balazs Opra

Ph.D. Student

Cooperation with Woven by Toyota

Yue Pan

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 05

Gianmarco Roggiolani

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 05

Robert Schirmer

Ph.D. Student

Cooperation with BOSCH

Matteo Sodano

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 60 190

Niklas Trekel

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 10

Louis Wiesmann

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 06

Christian Witte

Ph.D. Student

Cooperation with CARIAD

Xingguang (Starry) Zhong

Ph.D. Student

+49 228 73 29 01

Graduated PhD Students

Igor Bogoslavskyi

Graduated 2018 (Dr. Ing.)

Christian Merfels

Graduated 2018 (Dr. Ing.)

Kaihong Huang

Graduated 2018 (Dr. Ing.)

Johannes Schneider

Graduated 2019 (Dr. Ing.)

Olga Vysotska

Graduated 2019 (Dr. Ing.)

Emanuele Palazzolo

Graduated 2019 (Dr. Ing.)

Lorenzo Nardi

Graduated 2020 (Dr. Ing.)

Philipp Lottes

Graduated 2021 (Dr. Ing.)

Andres Milioto

Graduated 2021 (Dr. Ing.)

Nived Chebrolu

Graduated 2021 (Dr. Ing.)

Daniel Wilbers

Graduated 2021 (Dr. Ing.)

Xieyuanli (Rhiney) Chen

Graduated 2022 (Dr. Ing.)

Ignacio Vizzo

Graduated 2023 (Dr. Ing.)

Jan Weyler

Graduated 2024 (Dr. Ing.)

Federico Magistri

Graduated 2025 (Dr. Ing.)

Benedikt Mersch

Graduated 2025 (Dr. Ing.)

Matthias Zeller

Graduated 2025 (Dr. Ing.)

Julius Rückin

Graduated 2025 (Dr. Ing.)

Emeriti

Wolfgang Förstner

Emeritus

Student Assistants

Former Members (since 2014)

Taigo Bonanni

Visiting Ph.D. Student

Fabrizio Nenci

Ph.D. Student

Christian Neyers

Student Assistant

Garima Agrawal

Visiting B.Sc. Student

Karsten Böhm

Student Assistant

Jaehoon Jung

Visiting Postdoc

René Anger

Student Assistant

Katharina Franz

Student Assistant

Max Rauh

Student Assistant

Felix Esser

Student Assistant

Mathias Hans

Ph.D. Student

Tim Wigbels

Startup Founder

Monika Tüttenberg

Secretary

Susanne Wenzel

Ph.D. Student & Postdoc

Julio Pastrana

Postdoc & Startup Founder

Timo Trompeter

Student Assistant

Thomas Höllen

Student Assistant

Alireza Ahmadi

Student Assistant

Philippe Giguère

Visiting Prof. (Laval University)

Florian Görlich

Student Assistant

Christoph Siedentop

External Ph.D. Student

Dario Gogol

Student Assistant

Ferdinand Langer

Student Assistant

Jonas Hüssen

Student Assistant

Jan Quakernack

Student Assistant

Argentina Ortega Sainz

External Ph.D. Student

Yash Goel

Student Assistant

Martin Obersheimer

Student Assistant

Vardeep Singh Sandhu

Student Assistant

Maja Richter

Student Assistant

Andrzej Reinke

Student Assistant

Lasse Peters

Ph.D. Student

Alessandro Riccardi

Student Assistant

Carsten Goy

Student Assistant

Dhagash Desai

Student Assistant

Hao Dong

Visiting M.Sc. Student

Philipp Lottes

Ph.D. Student, Postdoc, Startup Founder

Sumanth Nagulavancha

Student Assistant

Hyungtae Lim

Visiting Ph.D. Student

Marc Hanheide

Visiting Prof. (U. of Lincoln)

Nicky Zimmerman

Ph.D. Student

Nicki Dederichs

Student Assistant

Nils Quadt

Student Assistant

Thorbjörn Posewsky

External Ph.D. Student

Shashank Dammalpati

Student Assistant

Jean-Marie Hembach

Student Assistant, graduated

Daniel Fusaro

Visiting Ph.D. Student (Padova)

University of Padova

Arun Narenthiran Sivakumar

Visiting Ph.D. Student (UIUC)

Alen Alempijević

Visiting Prof. (UTS)

Javier Laserna Moratalla

Visiting Ph.D. Student (UP Madrid)

Tiziano Guadagnino

Postdoc

Kaiwen Wang

Visiting Ph.D. Student (Wageningen)

Nik Petrinic

Visiting Professor

Timo Röhling

External Ph.D. Student

Bernhard Wrobel

Emertius

Rene Heim

Postdoc (in collaboration with IfZ)

Moein Taherkhani

Student Assistant

Utkarsh Bajpai

Student Assistant

Calvin Galagain

Visiting Ph.D. Student (Paris ENSTA/CAE)