Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André is an internationally renowned computer scientist and Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at the University of Augsburg. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, multimodal user interfaces, social robots, affective computing, and intelligent user interfaces, with the aim of making AI systems more human-centered.

Prof. André studied computer science at Saarland University and earned her doctorate there in 1995. After positions at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), she became a professor at the University of Augsburg in 2001, where she established and has since led her chair.

For her outstanding research achievements, she has received numerous awards, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2021), and was named by the German Informatics Society as one of the “ten defining figures in the history of German AI.” She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academia Europaea, and other scientific academies, and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.