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)
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.-Ing. Marcin Grzegorzek
Head of the Research Department AI for Assistive Health Technologies
Prof. Dr. Heinz Handels
Head of the Research Department AI in Medical Image and Signal Processing
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