Grants, Awards, and Scholarships

• Neurocognitive Analytics of Active Vision in Ageing2024–2025 Stiftelsens för Strategisk Forskning / Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research - SSF Sabbaticals (SSF) (Individual Grant)
  
• Counterfactual Commonsense2023–2026 Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council - Project Grant (Individual Grant)
  
• Multimodality and Intermediality2023–2027 Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council - Interdisciplinary Doctoral School (With Anders Björkvall and other colleagues from Örebro, and Linnaeus University)
  
• CHAIR X+AI Grant @ Chalmers AI Research Center (CHAIR)2022–2023 Seed funding for the development of specialist interdisciplinary research theme in Human-Centred AI & Robotics With: Prof. Dr. Karinne Ramirez-Amaro (Chalmers), and Dr. André Pereira (KTH)
  
• CogniSCITIES: Towards a Cognitive Science approach to active urban mobility in CITIES2022–2023 Seed-Money grant within the framework of the core research area „Future City“ at TU Braunschweig With: Prof. Dr. Vanessa Carlow (TU Braunschweig), and Prof. Dr. Patrick Haggard (UCL)
  
• Multimodal Rhetoric in Online Media Communications2018 / 2020 Interdisciplinary Research Group ZiF Bielefeld / Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld (ZiF) www / ZiF
  
• EASE: Everyday Activity Science and Engineering2017–2021 DFG Collaborative Research Centre (CRC / SFB). 1st Phase (lasting 4 years) approved by DFG July 2017. EASE Project P3: Spatial Reasoning in Everyday Activity DFG www
  
• COINVENT: Concept Invention Theory EU FP7 ICT STREP Grant agreement no. 611553 with: Dr. Oliver Kutz, Prof. John Bateman, Prof. Till Mossakowski Partners: CSIS (Spain), Edinburgh (UK), Osnabrück (DE) Bremen (DE), Goldsmiths (UK), AUTH (GR), Dundee (UK) (Bremen is now an associate partner because of project movements)
  
• DFG. Conference Organization Grant2013 German Research Foundation (DFG) 27th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning University of Bremen and Technische Universität München with: Prof. Christian Freksa (Bremen) and Prof. Peter Struss (TUM)
  
• CAPES, and CNPq Brazil. Conference Organization Grant2013 Brazilian Higher Education Co-ordination Agency. Jointly with: Dr. Paulo Santos, Dr. Oliver Kutz, Dr. Stefano Borgo Organization of SHAPES 2.0 Workshop, 2013
  
• DFG and NSF. Collaboration Grant2011 US National Science Foundation (NSF), and German Research Foundation (DFG) University of Kentucky (USA) and University of Bremen with: Prof. Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA NSF Collaboration Grant No. IIS-1049360, Proposal No. IIS-1153477
  
• EU FP7 Programme PEOPLE. - Project mSAFE2011–2015 Jointly with Universities of Bremen, Zurich, Melbourne, and La Trobe University (AU) at Bremen: with Dr. Kai-Florian Richter, Dr. Falko Schmid, and Prof. Christian Freksa People exchange funding programme. Proposal no. 295269
  
• Falling Walls Lab Osnabrück2014 Part of `Falling Walls': The International Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society (awarded second place & selected for FW Labs Finale in Berlin)
  
• TNSC-SAVI. Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC)2013 Thematic Network in Spatial Cognition (TNSC), and US NSF Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) supplement award. Department of Geography University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
  
• UniBremen. Nominated as the University of Bremen candidate for the German Research Foundation (DFG) Award: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 20142013
  
• SFB/TR 8. DFG Spatial Cognition Research Center2013, 12, 11, 10 Strategic Project granted as a part of the SFB/TR 8 center Project DesignSpace: Assistive Intelligence for Spatial Design
  
• AvH. Humboldt Foundation / Stiftung, Germany2008 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Host. University of Bremen, Germany
  
• DAAD. German Academic Exchange Service / DAAD2007 Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates and Young Scientists and Academics. DAAD, Germany. Host: SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
  
• APA. Australian Post-Graduate Award (APA)2004 by the Australian Commonwealth Doctoral studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  
• NICTA. National ICT Australia2002 National ICT (NICTA) Research Scholarship, Australia. Host: University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
  

Other Grants

• UniBremen 2012. Internationalisation at Home Program
  Funding for inviting a guest professor for an extended stay at the University of Bremen.
• SRI 2011. Stanford Research Institute (SRI, Menlo Park).
  Scholarships for Invited Talk and Collaborative Visits in 2011. (Invitation by: Vinay Chaudhri)
• AAAI 2011. Speaker Participation Grant
  Tutorial: Recognising Behaviour in a Spatio-Temporal Context, AAAI Conference 2011, San Francisco, USA
• US NGA 2010. US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), ISO-Space 2010 Standardization Initiative, part of ISO TC 37 / SC 4. Invited Participation Grant, Washington D.C. USA. (Invitation by: James Pustejovsky)
• US NSF 2010. US National Science Foundation (NSF). Invited Participation Grant.
  Workshop on Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity, Aix-en-Provence, France. 2010 (Invitation by: John Gero)
• CalPoly 2010. California Polytechnic State University, USA.
  Grant for Invited Talk and Collaborative Visit. 2010 (Invitation by: Franz Kurfess)
• ESF-JSPS 2008. European Science Foundation (ESF) – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  Scholarship, ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Forum for Young Researchers. 2008
• DSTO 2007. Defence Science Technology Organization (DSTO), Australia, Research Grant, AOD Long Range Research Task in Simulation Technology(LRR04/159), 2007
• ARC RN SISS 2007. Australian Research Council Network: Spatially Integrated Social Science, Summer School 2007
  Participation Award, University of Queensland, Australia -Theory and Methods in Spatially Integrated Social Science. 2007
• ARC STEP 2006. Science, Technology and Economic Progress (STEP 06) Forum
  Participation Award. University of Canberra – ARC Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA). 2006
• SIRC 2006. Research Grant for Visiting Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC), University of Otago, New Zealand. 2006
• ESRI 2005. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 05)
  Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI, USA) Conference Travel Award. 2005
• IDEAL 2005. Intelligent Data Engineering & Automated Learning (IDEAL 05)
  ARC COSNet Funded Travel Award, Australia. 2005
• LTU 2004. Logic Summer School 2004, Australian National University (ANU).
  Participation grant funded by La Trobe University, Australia. 2004
• LTU 2003. La Trobe University Summer Research Scholarship, 2003