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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Georgia Chalvatzaki

  • Education

    2012-2019 Doctorate: supervisors: Prof. C. Tzafestas, Prof. P. Maragos; Human-Centered Modeling for Assistive Robotics: Stochastic Estimation and Robot Learning in Decision Making, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    2006-2012 Degree programme: Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical Universtiy of Athens, Greece

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2023-current Full Professor (W3) for Interactive Robot Perception & Learning, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2022-2023 Assistant Professor (W1), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2021-2022 Independent Research Group Leader (Emmy Noether DFG), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2019-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

  • Commissions of Trust

    2023-current Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Women in Engineering committee
    2023-current Associate Editor of the International Journal on Robotics Research
    2022-current Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
    2022-current Area Chair/Associate Editor for International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Conference on Robotics Science and Systems (RSS)
    2022-2023 Co-chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Women in Engineering
    committee
    2022-2023 Associate chair of the Technical Cluster on Robots for Unstructured Environments of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
    2021-current Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)
    2021-current Co-chair of the Technical Committee on Mobile Manipulation of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2024 ERC Starting Grant, Project: Structured Interactive Perception Learning for Robotic Embodied Intelligence (SIREN)
    2023 Best Paper Award at the ICRA 2023 Workshop on Geometric Representations for the paper 'SE(3)-DiffusionFields: Learning smooth cost functions for joint grasp and motion optimization through diffusion'
    2023 IROS 2023 Best Paper Award in Mobile Manipulation Finalist for the paper 'Placing by Touching: lacing by touching: An empirical study on the importance of tactile sensing for precise object placing'
    2022 IROS 2022 Best Paper Award in Mobile Manipulation for the paper 'Robot learning of mobile manipulation with reachability behavior priors'
    2022 Finalist for Dr. Hans Messer Foundation Prize
    2022 Junior Researcher for 2021 (top 10 applications), academics.de, die ZEIT ONLINE
    2021-2027 DFG Emmy Noether Research Group
    2021 Daimler and Benz Foundation Scholarship
    2021 AI Newcomer, German Informatics Society, BMBF, Germany

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