Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob"

We are recruiting three PhD students to work with us on a new project on agricultural innovation adoption and impacts in Vietnam. We provide full funding and exciting international opportunities. Please spread the word and apply by 6 Dec 2024. Details: https://lnkd.in/eCcdrp2z Team: Matin Qaim, David Wuepper, Thanh Tung Nguyen, and others at Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung / Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Vietnam National University of Agriculture

Congratulations Jan Weyler! 👏 🎉

👨🏼🎓 We are excited to share insights from Dario Schulz’s PhD thesis! In our new #PhenoRob Graduate Talk, he discusses “Evidence on the role of context for agricultural innovation and conservation”. 🌿 One focus of his thesis was the context and diffusion of innovation adoption. Therefore, he looked at the spread of the digital crop advisory app Plantix in India, which helps farmers with crop diagnostics and treatments. This included looking at the different crop types and analysing the spatiotemporal patterns of app diffusion. 🛰️ Dario also evaluated conservation policies by examining the heterogeneous trade-offs between biodiversity and yield on grasslands in Germany, using Sentinel-2 data. His latest paper on “Trade-offs between grassland plant biodiversity and yields are heterogeneous across Germany” was published last month. To learn more about Dario and his PhD thesis, watch the video below 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/eCxHyixV 🔗 You can find his latest publication here: https://lnkd.in/eapY5asr #UniBonn #InnovationAdoption #Farmer #Biodiversity #ConservationPolicies

This week during our Production Economics Group retreat we had the possibility to visit the research station at Campus Klein-Altendorf and discover new solutions for the bioeconomy and modern research infrastructure (thanks to Ralf Pude), hear about the potential of Agri-PV in fruit production (thanks to Johannes Nachtwey) and discuss about farm diversification in German agriculture (thanks to Der Heinenhof and Familie Schröder). Thanks to all for their warm welcome - it was really inspiring. If you are interested in our group, find more information here: https://mohringlab.com/

👩🏻🎓 In our latest #PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talk Annika Bonerath gives an introduction to her PhD thesis “Geometric Algorithms for the Visual Exploration of Spatiotemporal Data”. 🖥️ As part of her thesis, she worked on large, difficult to explore datasets in order to understand the characteristics of the data. She therefore focused on spatiotemporal events, including a point location, a timestamp and associated data, following the research question “Can we develop time-windowed data structures for visualizations of events with a low query time and low memory consumption?”. 🎉 To get to the bottom of this question, she worked on polygonal and grid-based representation and labelling, developed three approaches, evaluated the data experimentally, and was successful. ▶️ To learn more about Annika’s PhD thesis and her future work, watch the video below. https://lnkd.in/gmU89fiQ #UniBonn #PhDResearch #GeometricAlgorithms #VisualExploration

📊 Managing large amounts of scientific data? No problem for Matthias Lange! 🧬🌱 Matthias is head of the Scientific Data Management Unit in Bioinformatics and Information Technology (BIT) at the IPK Leibniz-Institut (IPK). The IPK Gatersleben, which stands for Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, is home to one of Germany’s gene banks with one of the world's largest plant germplasm collections. 🗃️🙏 In his #PhenoRob Seminar Series, Matthias talks about “Unlocking genotypic and phenotypic data of gene banks - Showcases from current projects at IPK Gatersleben”, giving an insight into the IPK’s large-scale data management infrastructure for research data, bridging IT service and science. 💡🖥️ Data collected by the scientists in the laboratory or in the field is processed according to the research data management lifecycle. This includes linking physical objects to a digital twin and harmonising data formats. It is essential to ensure easy storage, access and publication of the data. At the IPK, the workflow from sampling to sequencing to data submission is semi-automated, and all data is published. ▶️ To Learn more about the IPK Gatersleben, click on the link below. https://lnkd.in/eMzER2AF #SeminarSeries #FuturePlants #DataManagement #Bioinformatics #PlantGenetics #DigitalTwin

My invited talk on how to write good papers from the IROS 2024 YP event is now available. Thanks Julie Stephany Berrio Perez for the video.

🚜 👨💻 We are excited to see our team present their new paper at #ECCV2024 in Milan: “A Framework for Enhanced Decision Support in Digital Agriculture Using Explainable Machine Learning”! 🌱 👏 A great contribution to the future of sustainable agriculture - we wish you a successful event! 🚀 Check out the link to the paper in the post below 👇 #MachineLearning #Sustainability #SmartAgriculture #Publication

Our #IROS2024 workshop "3rd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars" was a big success. Many thanks to all presenters and participants! Further info: https://lnkd.in/eFUD3Qct

Hortibot, a Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob" robot, in action!