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Hans-Ulrich Krieger is a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and knowledge representation. His work focuses on enabling flexible collaboration between humans, robots, and virtual agents—a concept he terms "Hybrid Teams." Krieger's most impactful contribution, the 2016 paper "Hybrid Teams: Flexible Collaboration Between Humans, Robots and Virtual Agents" (28 citations), lays the theoretical and practical groundwork for mixed human-robot teams capable of performing diverse tasks in production settings. A companion video paper (14 citations) demonstrates the first milestone of this ambitious project, showcasing augmented humans working alongside autonomous robots and virtual agents. Beyond collaborative robotics, Krieger applies ontological reasoning to socially-aware systems, notably in the PAL project, where he developed ontologies for social, cognitive, and affective agent-based support to help children aged 8–14 manage diabetes (7 citations). His earlier work on combining uncertainty with description logic rule-based reasoning (5 citations) enables robots to maintain robust situational awareness by integrating domain knowledge with real-time observations. Through these contributions, Krieger advances the frontier of human-robot collaboration and intelligent, context-aware autonomous systems.