Dr. Philipp Lottes

About

I’ve been researching and developing AI and computer vision solutions for agriculture for over a decade. In 2020, I founded Pheno-Inspect to translate research into a scalable SaaS platform for digital phenotyping and agronomy—now evolving into a modern, customer-first self-service product.

Experience

• Pheno-Inspect (Ruhr Region)
  • Co-Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

    I lead the technical strategy and execution at Pheno-Inspect, scaling our AI-powered SaaS into a reliable, customer-first self-service platform for digital phenotyping and agronomy.

  • Technical Founder & CEO (Research-to-Product Phase)
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2025 · 6 yrs

    As Technical Founder & CEO, I built Pheno-Inspect from a research project into a commercial AI company for agriculture—developing an initial MVP for digital phenotyping, validating the product–solution fit with customers, and evolving it into a scalable SaaS platform.

• University of Bonn, IGG, Photogrammetry and Robotics Lab (Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
  • Postdoc
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs

    Research on unsupervised Machine Learning

  • Research Assistant / PhD student
    Nov 2015 - Dec 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Developing plant classification systems for agricultural robots

• Marx Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH (4 yrs 4 mos)
  • Surveying Engineer
    May 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Surveyor
    Jun 2009 - May 2012 · 3 yrs

    Assistance for surveying projects in various areas.