Below, I list all research grants where I was the principle investigator (PI, as it's called in Germany) or chief investigator (CI, as it's called in Australia).
I also list research projects in which I worked, even if I didn't win funding as a PI/CI for it.
DECRA 2024:
For mid-2024 to mid-2027, I won the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for the project titled Automated Modelling Assistance for the Creation of Complex Planning Models (project ID DE240101245) by the Australian Research Council (ARC). I received 486,100.00 AUD from the ARC and another significant amount from the ANU. The funds fund my own position, two PhDs, travel, student assistants, and further expenses/hiring in line with the research goals.
project summary:
Automated Modelling Assistance for the Creation of Complex Planning Models. Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning technology is used to control systems like automated factories, robots, or to solve complex optimisation problems. Creating these models is however rather complex and error-prone and requires experts to create them in the first place. This project aims at developing techniques and tools for automated modelling support. They will make the modelling process easier and guarantee desired model properties such as the desired system behaviour. The tools will thus contribute towards making the technology more easily accessible to companies that might want to deploy them, while reducing costs for doing so and increasing the quality of these models.
DFG Project 2019:
In November 2019, I got the project Hierarchical Planning: From Plan Verification to Plan Recognition (project number 432592705) accepted, funding my own position for two years (179,500 EUR, eq. to 295,000 AUD) plus program allowances (39,500 EUR, eq. 65,000 AUD). The project funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) was in collaboration with Prof. Roman Bartak in a joint GACR-DFG cooperation program. The Czech' part of the project was reviewed independently by GACR (the Czech Science Foundation) and was accepted as well. Prof. Bartak was roughly granted the same amount. Although the project was funded, I could not start it. (I was later collaborating on the project, resubmitted by Prof. Gregor Behnke)
DFG Technology Transfer Project T3:
From 2016 to 2019, I was working in the Technology Transfer Project T3: Do it yourself, but not alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement of the CRC/TRR 62 with the Robert Bosch GmbH (the proposal was in German; original title: Do it yourself, but not alone: Companion-Technologie für die Heimwerkerunterstützung). I was acting as the project coordinator over the entire runtime. The project won Ulm University's Cooperation Award: Science – Economy 2019 (German: Kooperationspreis: Wissenschaft – Wirtschaft 2019).
DFG CRC SFB TRR 62:
From 2009 to 2017 I was working in the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforchungsbereich) Transregio 62, Companion-Technology for Cognitive Technical Systems SFB TRR 62. Specifically, I worked in part project A1: Adaptive Planning and Decision Making.