Prof. Dr. Georgia Chalvatzaki has been awarded the 2025 Alfried Krupp Prize by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation in recognition of her scientific achievements. From 2022 to 2024, the robotics researcher had already received funding as part of the Daimler and Benz Foundation’s scholarship program for junior professors and postdoc researchers.

Georgia Chalvatzaki, Professor of Interactive Robot Perception and Learning at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, conducts research into robots that learn in real time from interactions with their surroundings and with humans. For this purpose, she combines classical robotics with modern AI learning methods. Her work focuses in particular on a new generation of mobile humanoid robot which in future will be able to move and act as trusted partners in human environments – for example in healthcare, mobility, agriculture, and education.

The Alfried Krupp Prize, endowed with €1.1 million, has been awarded every year since 1986 by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation to scientists who hold their first professorship in natural sciences and engineering at a German university. The funding allows them to carry out their scientific work flexibly and independently over a period of five years.