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Managing Directors & Management Board

Managing Directors

Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger
Helmut Ditzer

 

Executive Directors

Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Andreas Dengel (DFKI Kaiserslautern)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Frank Kirchner (DFKI Bremen)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Slusallek (DFKI Saarbrücken)
Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg (DFKI Niedersachsen)


Management Board

The DFKI management board consists of the following persons:

Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger
Managing Director and
Head of the Research Department Cognitive Assistants

Prof. Dr. Martin Atzmüller
Head of the Research Department Plan-Based Robot Control

Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig
Head of the Research Department Systems AI for Decision Support

Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Andreas Dengel
Executive Director DFKI Kaiserslautern and
Head of the Research Department Smart Data & Knowledge Services

Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler
Head of the Research Department Cyber-Physical Systems

Prof. Dr. Heinz Handels
Head of the Research Department AI in Medical Image and Signal Processing

Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg
Executive Director DFKI Niedersachsen and
Head of the Research Department Plan-Based Robot Control

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost
Head of the Research Department Design Research eXplorations

Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting
Head of the Research Department Foundations of Systems AI

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Frank Kirchner
Executive Director DFKI Bremen and
Head of the Research Department Robotics Innovation Center

Prof. Dr. Peter Loos
Head of the Research Department Institute for Information Systems

Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz
Head of the Research Department Embedded Intelligence

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maaß
Head of the Research Department Smart Service Engineering

Prof. Dr. Volker Markl
Head of the Research Department Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller
Head of the Research Department Speech & Language Technology

Prof. Dr. Jan Peters
Head of the Research Department Systems AI for Robot Learning

Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart
Head of the Research Department Educational Technology Lab

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ruskowski
Head of Research Department Innovative Factory Systems

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Schotten
Head of Research Department Intelligent Networks

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Slusallek
Executive Director DFKI Saarbrücken and
Head of Research Department Agents and Simulated Reality

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Sonntag
Head of Research Department Interactive Machine Learning

Dr. Frederic Theodor Stahl
Acting Head of Research Department Marine Perception

Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker
Head of Research Department Augmented Vision

Prof. Dr. Oliver Thomas
Head of Research Department Smart Enterprise Engineering

Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith
Head of Research Department Multilinguality and Language Technology

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer
Head of Research Department Data Science and its Applications

Prof. Dr. Verena Wolf
Head of Research Department Neuro-mechanistic Modelling