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PhD Projects at SDU Robotics

Find concluded PhD projects here.


Artificial Intelligence Robotic-Based NavigationFramework for Autonomous Cardiac Ultrasound Scanning

PhD student: Nicolai Hedegaard Jensen
Supervisor: Thiusius R. Savarimuthu
Co-supervisor: Bruno Miguel Gomes Oliveira from SDU Robotics and Preman Kumanarathurai from OUH

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Behavior Adaptation for Human-Robot Collaboration

PhD student: Emilia T. J. S. Pietras
Supervisor: Leon Bodenhagen

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Biomedical sensor and AI method for tissue measurement

PhD student: Marianne Viola Petersen
Supervisor: Thiusius R. Savarimuthu
Co-supervisor: Zhuoqi Cheng from SDU Robotics


Coordination of verbal and non-verbal cues on humanoid robots using LLMs and VLMs

PhD student: Pol Barrera Valls
Supervisor:  Oskar Palinko
Co-supervisor: Leon Bodenhagen from SDU Robotics

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Data-Efficiency and Safety Guarantees in Robot Imitation Learning

PhD student: Wilbert Peter Empleo
Supervisor: Thiusius R. Savarimuthu
Co-supervisor: Iñigo Iturrate from SDU Robotics

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Deep learning based human modeling in physical human-robot interaction

PhD student:  Yingfan Zhou
Supervisor: Cheng Fang
Co-supervisor: Henrik Gordon Petersen from SDU Robotics

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Detection and Tracking of Cows for Animal Welfare

PhD student: Rasmus Gjerlund Kaae Christiansen
Supervisor: Dirk Kraft
Co-supervisor: Leon Bodenhagen from SDU Robotics

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Dexterous Manipulation for Industrial Automation

PhD student: Victor Melbye Staven
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth

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Efficient Robot Programming mixing Reusable Code and Data

PhD student: Zebin Duan
Supervisor: Norbert Krüger
Co-supervisors: Frederik Hagelskjær from SDU Robotics and Juan Esteban Heredia Mena from SDU Software Engineering

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Flow based Genrative Factory Optimzation in the industrial metaverse

PhD student: Jens Christian Bech Andersen
Supervisor: Aljaz Kramberger
Co-supervisor: Steffen Madsen from Novo Nordisk
The PhD project is carried out in collaboration with Novo Nordisk. 


Intelligent Control for Soft Continuum Robots in Minimally Invasive Surgery

PhD student: Haolin Jiang
Supervisor: Thiusius R. Savarimuthu
Co-supervisor: Di Wu and Zhuoqi Cheng Iturrate from SDU Robotics


Intelligent In-Feed Systems for Flexible Robotic Workcells

PhD student: Peter Duc
Supervisor: Simon Faarvang Mathiesen
Co-supervisor: Thorbjørn Mosekjær Iversen from SDU Robotics 


Reliable AMR localization in dynamic industrial environments

Industrial PhD student: Christian Rosendahl Dam
Supervisor: Leon Bodenhagen
Co-supervisor: MIR

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Robotic Implements

PhD student: Jeppe Hansen
Supervisor: Aljaz Kramberger
Co-supervisors: Leon Bodenhagen and Simon Faarvang Mathiesen from SDU Robotics


Safe Energy-aware Robotic Teleoperation

PhD student: Rui Luo
Supervisor: Cheng Fang
Co-supervisor: Henrik Gordon Petersen from SDU Robotics and Wesley Roozing from University of Twente

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Safe Manipulation and Assembly of Flexible and Fragile Objects for Laboratory

PhD student: Haegu Lee
Supervisor: Christoffer Sloth

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Sensor based process and quality control for dry fiber layups on blades for wind turbines

PhD student: Jonathan Bøss
Supervisor: Jakob Wilm
Co-supervisor: Henrik Gordon Petersen from SDU Robotics

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Last Updated 08.05.2026