I am an Associate Professor in Soft Robotics for Sustainability at SDU Biorobotics, University of Southern Denmark. I develop bioinspired, compliant robots for monitoring and operating in marine, freshwater, coastal, soil and sediment environments.
My expertise includes soft robot design and fabrication, bioinspired swimming, crawling and burrowing, embedded and environmental sensing, autonomous and teleoperated control, low-disturbance inspection, repeated field monitoring and targeted sample collection. My systems are inspired by fish, cuttlefish, snails and earthworms and are designed to access fragile, confined or difficult-to-reach habitats.
I can contribute robotic platforms carrying cameras, water- and soil-quality sensors, acoustic and tactile sensors, and other environmental instruments. I am especially interested in working with ecologists, conservation scientists, environmental authorities and NGOs to co-design minimally invasive tools for biodiversity observation, habitat assessment and long-term ecosystem monitoring.

Main skills: bioinspired soft robotics, environmental robotics, marine robotics, autonomous monitoring, embedded sensing, environmental sensor integration, robotic sampling and field experimentation.

Bioengineering
Biomechanics
Electrical engineering, electronics, information engineering
Materials science and engineering
Mechanical engineering
Ocean engineering
Remote Sensing

I am looking to join an interdisciplinary consortium for the BiodivFuture call, particularly projects addressing under Theme A, “Novel Ecosystem Functioning,” and Theme B, “Pathways to Novel Ecosystems.”
I can lead or contribute to a technology-focused work package developing minimally disruptive robotic monitoring and sampling methods. Potential contributions include: • Bioinspired mobile robots for repeated in situ environmental observations • Robotic access to seabeds, sediments, soils, vegetation, cavities, confined habitats and fragile ecological structures • Integration of imaging, water or soil quality, acoustic, tactile and other environmental sensors • Collection of small and targeted environmental samples • Autonomous monitoring missions with human supervision and teleoperation • Laboratory testing and field validation of monitoring technologies • Co-design of robotic tools with ecologists, environmental practitioners and end users.
I am particularly interested in involving ecology and conservation biology, monitoring animal behavior, marine or freshwater science, soil and sediment ecology, environmental sensing, data analysis and modelling, remote sensing, social sciences, policy researchers and non-academic stakeholders such as NGOs and conservation organisations. The purpose of robotics would serve as an enabling research infrastructure for collecting actionable knowledge about the emergence, functioning and future development of novel ecosystems.

bioinspired soft robotics, environmental robotics, biodiversity monitoring, novel ecosystems, marine and coastal monitoring, subsurface and sediment robotics, environmental sensing, minimally invasive sampling, autonomous field robots, habitat monitoring

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