Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr. rer. nat., IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Socially Intelligent Robotics at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She is a member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is cross-appointed with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, as well as the Department of Systems Design Engineering, and the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo. In Waterloo she directs the Social and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. Her research areas are social robotics, human-robot interaction, assistive robotics, cognitive and developmental robotics. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles (H-Index 98), and frequently gives invited keynote presentations at international conferences., e.g. at IEEE RO-MAN 2025 in the Netherlands. She has several senior Editorial Roles in international journals, e.g. the International Journal of Social Robotics, and Interaction Studies
