[2] Between 2001 and 2004, he was a group leader and a member of the steering committee of the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems FhG-AIS.

[9] From 2011 to 2021, he was Program Principal Investigator at TUMCREATE[10] in Singapore and head of the Area Interlinking Design Analysis group.

Several of his graduates and post-doctoral researchers have also become professors, either directly or via other positions, including Guang Chen,[24] Manuel Giuliani,[25] Florian Röhrbein[26] and Jianwei Zhang.

[27] An essential part of his activities in the field of teaching was the establishment of the Master's programme “Robotics, Cognition and Intelligence”[28][29] in 2010.

Starting in its first year with a single-digit number of students, it has become the second largest programme of the former Faculty of Computer Science at TUM.

[30] Together with Klaus Kuhn,[31] he founded the “Graduate School for Information Science in Health“ in 2008[32] and led it until it was transferred to the “Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering”.