At the university

• Head of the Bachelor’s degree program in Automation Technology and Robotics
• Head of the Robotics Laboratory
• Head of the Laboratory for Control Engineering

Outside the university

• Private lecturer at the TU Munich

• Since 2016: Research professorship at Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• since 2014: Professor of Automation Technology and Robotics at Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2013: Habilitation at the TU Munich (where he continues to work as a private lecturer)
• 2013 to 2014: Head of the Chair of Sensor Technology at the University of Passau (deputy)
• 2012 to 2014: Head of department at the State Office for Weights and Measures
• 2009 to 2012: Carl von Linde Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Munich
• 2007 to 2012: Group leader and lecturer at the Chair of Control Engineering, TU Munich
• 2007 to 2012: Independent Junior Research Group Leader at the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Cognition for Technical Systems – CoTeSys”
• 2007: Doctorate at the TU Munich
• 2003 to 2007: Research assistant at the Chair of Control Engineering, TU Munich

Prof. Dr. Kolja Kühnlenz has held various leadership positions for research and graduate centers, including member of the extended board of the Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys, board member of the BMBF Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience and chairman of the DFG Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys Graduate Center.
He has organized several scientific conferences, including the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) and the 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO) as Program Chair.
He is Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer, and was Associate Editor in IEEE RAS CEB and IEEE ICRB, Guest Editor for RSJ Advanced Robotics and Program Committee Member of numerous conferences, e.g. IEEE RO-MAN, IEEE ICARCV, IEEE AIM, IEEE CIRA, IEEE HSI, ICSR, AISB, ICINCO.
Prof. Kühnlenz’s research focuses on vision-guided robotics and human-robot interaction.
He has made significant contributions in the fields of biomimetic integrated visual top-down/bottom-up attention control, high-performance image-based robot control and social-psychological approaches for dynamic human-robot systems.
He has published more than 90 papers in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

• Control Engineering
• Robotics
• Measurement and Control
• Machine Vision
• Interactive and Mobile Robotics Project

University Activities

• Director, Robotics Lab
• Member of Faculty Committee

Professional Activities

• Adjunct Teaching Professor, TU Munich

Dr. Kolja Kühnlenz is professor of automation and robotics at Coburg University, Germany, since 2014 and research professor since 2016.
He received his PhD in 2007 and his habilitation degree in 2013 from TU Munich, Germany.
He is also an adjunct teaching professor at TU Munich, Germany, since 2013.
Before, he was visiting professor and interim chair of sensor systems at University of Passau, Germany, from 2013 to 2014 and department head at the Bavarian State office of Metrology from 2012 to 2014.
Dr. Kühnlenz was senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering (LSR), TU Munich, from 2007 to 2012.
He was also Carl von Linde Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Munich, from 2009 to 2012 and Independent Junior Research Group Leader at DFG cluster of excellence “Cognition for Technical Systems – CoTeSys” from 2007 to 2012.
From 2003 to 2007 he was research and teaching assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, TU Munich, Germany.
He held several leading positions in research and graduate centers such as member of the extended board of DFG cluster of excellence CoTeSys, member of the executive board of Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience and chairman of the DFG cluster of excellence CoTeSys Graduate Center, Munich, Germany.
He organized various IEEE events such as 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) and 2012 IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO) as program chair.
He is associate editor and editorial board member of International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer, and served as associate editor in IEEE RAS CEB and IEEE ICRB, as Guest Editor at RSJ Advanced Robotics and as program committee member of various conferences such as e.g. IEEE RO-MAN, IEEE ICARCV, IEEE AIM, IEEE CIRA, IEEE HSI, ICSR, AISB, ICINCO.
Dr. Kühnlenz’ research interests are visually guided robots and human-robot interaction.
Among his contributions are approaches to biomimetic integrated top-down/bottom-up visual attention, high-speed visual servoing and social psychological approaches to dynamic human-robot closed loop systems.
He published over 90 papers in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.