Team
![Dr. Sebastian Pütz](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/spuetz.jpg)
CEO
Dr. Sebastian Pütz
![Malte kl. Piening](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/mklpiening.jpg)
CTO
Malte kl. Piening
![Gerrit Woeckner](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/gwoeckner.jpg)
COO
Gerrit Woeckner
![Sven Lake](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/slake.jpg)
CSO
Sven Lake
![Christopher Bröcker](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/cbroecker.jpg)
AI Software Engineer
Christopher Bröcker
![Marvin Schulte](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/mschulte.jpg)
Robot Software Engineer
Marvin Schulte
![Krupal Shah](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/kshah.jpg)
AI Software Engineer
Krupal Shah
![Matthias Holoch](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/mholoch.jpg)
Robot Software Engineer
Matthias Holoch
![Manuel Ballmann](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/mballmann.jpg)
Robot Hardware Engineer
Manuel Ballmann
![Timo Dobrowolski](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/tdobrowolski.jpg)
Student Software Engineer
Timo Dobrowolski
![Jana Kombrink-Lübbe](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/jkombrink-luebbe.jpg)
Student AI Intern
Jana Kombrink-Lübbe
![Caroline Diersmann](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/cdiersmann.jpg)
Student Worker Design
Caroline Diersmann
![Pascal Klein Helmkamp](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/phelmkamp.jpg)
Student Bachelor Thesis
Pascal Klein Helmkamp
Advisory Board
![Prof. Dr. Karin Schnitker](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/kschnitker.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Karin Schnitker
Prof. in Business Management at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. 15 years in various nat. / int. business roles. After various management roles Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture and co-project manager of the university's Startuplab@HS.
![Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/jhertzberg.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg
Prof. for Computer Science, Robotics and AI at Osnabrück University. Managing Director, German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Niedersachsen. Head, Plan-Based Robot Control research department at DFKI. Research fields: AI, Robot Control, and their applications in agriculture.
![Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/wburgard.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
Prof. in Robotics and AI and Founding Chair of the Engineering Department at Technical University of Nuremberg. Fellow of ECCAI and AAAI. Member of Leopoldina and Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2009.
![Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/sstiene.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene
Prof. for Intelligent Agriculture Systems at University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück. Head of the DFKI competence center Smart Agriculture Technologies. Project leader of Gaia-X research project Agri-Gaia. Research fields: Autonomous robot navigation and 3D data processing.
![Erik Pekkeriet](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/epekkeriet.jpg)
Erik Pekkeriet
Programme Manager Vision + Robotics at Wageningen University & Reserach. Founding father and network coordinator of agROBOfood. Chair of the topic group Agricultural Robots at EU Robotics. Chair at Greenhouse Horticultuire section at Dutch Society of Technology in Agriculture. Advisory board member of the European Machine Vision Forum
![Prof. Dr. Dieter Trautz](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/dtrautz.jpg)
Prof. Dr. Dieter Trautz
Prof. for agroecology and environmentally friendly land management: Cultivation in organic farming, mixed crops, precision farming in organic farming, technology transfer organic farming - conventional farming, climate change - effects on land management
![Prof. Nick Hawes, PhD](https://naturerobots.com/images/team/nhawes.jpg)
Prof. Nick Hawes, PhD
Prof. in AI and Robotics at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute. Leads the GOALS research group. Research into long-term autonomy, mission planning for mobile robots, and sequential decision-making under uncertainty.