Dr. rer. nat. Eren Erdal Aksoy


Researching on Semantic Scene Perception,
Robot Scene & Action Understanding,
Autonomous Driving, and AI.

I am currently employed as an Associate Professor within the RSS group at Lund University in Sweden. Before moving to Lund, I served as an Associate Professor at Halmstad University. Between 2018 and 2021, I also worked as a visiting scholar in AI teams at companies such as Volvo Group Trucks Technology and Zenseact AB in Sweden. Prior to moving to Sweden, I spent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the H2T group, led by Prof. Dr. Tamim Asfour. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, where I subsequently stayed for 2.5 years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Neuroscience group of Prof. Dr. Florentin Wörgötter. I am actively working on creating semantic representations of visual experiences to improve environment and action understanding for autonomous systems, such as robots and unmanned vehicles.

News

• 2026.02 I have an open PhD position in my newly funded ELLIIT project MOUSE at Lund University. Click here to apply before March 06!
• 2026.02 I served as an opponent for the defense of doctoral candidate Mahir Gulzar at the University of Tartu in Estonia.
• 2026.02 I am serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026.
• 2025.12 I am serving as an Editor for IEEE ICRA 2026.
• 2025.11 I gave an invited talk on "Robust Automated Driving in Extreme Weather" at the ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium in Robot Learning.
• 2025.10 I received an "Outstanding Editor Award" for the ELSP Journal on Robot Learning .
• 2025.09 I was appointed as an Associate Professor in the the RSS group at Lund University.
• 2025.06 We have two IEEE/RSJ IROS papers accepted! The first is on Graph-based Action Recognition while the second is about Unsupervised Point Cloud Denoising!