BAALL - Key Persons


Andreas Schepers

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communications & Media / DFKI Lab Berlin
  • Team Communications & Media Bremen

Christian Heyer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communications & Media

Christof Burgard

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communications & Media
  • Team Communications & Media Kaiserslautern

Dr. Ferri Abolhassan

Job Titles:
  • Deutsche Telekom AG ( Chair )

Dr. Frederic Theodor Stahl

Job Titles:
  • Kommissarischer Leiter

Dr. Gunnar Brink

Job Titles:
  • ROSEN Technology and Research Center GmbH

Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dietmar Harting

Job Titles:
  • Harting Electric Stiftung & Co

Elena Yorgova-Ramanauskas

Job Titles:
  • State Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digital and Energy of the State Saarland ( Vice Chair )

Gundula Kleiner

Job Titles:
  • Secretary

Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director & Head of the Research Department Cognitive Assistants
  • Managing Director of the German Research
Antonio Krüger is Managing Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI) and head of the department "Cognitive Assistants" at DFKI. He is a full professor of Computer Science at Saarland University (since 2009), Head of the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab, and scientific director of the Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL) at DFKI. Prof. Krüger is an internationally renowned expert on Man-Machine-Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. In 2010 he established the Mediainformatics study program at Saarland University and directs it to this day. Antonio Krüger is a co-founder of the Saarbrücken-based technology company Eyeled GmbH, which focuses on the development of mobile and ubiquitous information systems. Many of his research findings have found their way into applications in retail and other industrial domains. From 2004 to 2009, he was a professor of computer science and geoinformatics at the University of Münster and acted as the managing director of the institute for geoinformatics. He studied Computer Science and Economics at Saarland University and finished his Ph.D. in 1999 as a member of the Saarbrücken graduate school of "Cognitive Science." Antonio Krüger has published more than 200 scientific articles and papers in internationally recognized journals and conferences and is a member of several steering committees, editorial boards, and scientific advisory committees.

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost

Job Titles:
  • Design Research EXplorations

Prof. Dr. Jan Peters

Job Titles:
  • Research Departments
  • Systems AI for Robot Learning

Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith

Job Titles:
  • Multilinguality and Language Technology

Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting

Job Titles:
  • Foundations of Systems AI

Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz

Job Titles:
  • Embedded Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Peter Loos

Job Titles:
  • Institute for Information Systems

Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer

Job Titles:
  • Data Science and Its Applications

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Dieter Schotten

Job Titles:
  • Intelligent Networks

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ruskowski

Job Titles:
  • Innovative Factory Systems

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller

Job Titles:
  • Deputy

Reinhard Karger

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Spokesman

Swantje Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communications & Media
  • Team Communications & Media Saarbruecken