Malte Wirkus received his diploma in Computer Science from the University of Bremen in 2010. That same year, he joined the Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH). Through his involvement in various research and industry projects, he gained experience in robotic mobile manipulation, multi-agent architectures and human–robot collaboration. He subsequently received his PhD from the University of Bremen for his work on control architectures and frameworks for robotic applications. He currently works as a senior researcher and project and team leader at DFKI-RIC, focusing on multi-agent systems and reconfigurable robots.