Person
Prof. Dr. rer. nat.Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten
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Building: 6070
Room: 228
Theaterplatz 14
52062 Aachen
Office Hours
- by appointment
Responsibilities
Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten is a Full Professor and director of the group Individual and Technology at the Department of Society, Technology, and Human Factors at RWTH Aachen University.
Research
Her research interests include social effects of artificial entities, human-robot interaction, linguistic alignment with robots and virtual agents, as well as presence and communication in social media.
Personal Background
| Current and Previous Positions | |
|---|---|
| Since 2018 | Full Professor (W3) for Individual and Technology at the RWTH Aachen University (Department of Society, Technology, and Human Factors, Faculty of Philosophy), Germany |
| 2009-2018 | Researcher and lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer) |
| Education | |
|---|---|
| 2014 |
PhD in Psychology (summa cum laude); PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer |
| 2009 |
Master of Science in Applied Cognitive and Media Science |
| 2007 |
Bachelor of Science in Applied Cognitive and Media Science |
| Visiting Researcher | |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Visiting Researcher, Social Robotics Lab, Prof. Brian Scasselatti, Yale University, USA |
| 2010 | Visiting Researcher, Center for General Studies, Universiti Kebaangsan Malaysia |
| 2008 | Visiting Researcher, Virtual Agents Research Group, Prof. Jonathan Gratch, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA |
| Reviewing Activities | |
|---|---|
| Since 2021 | Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction |
| Since 2021 | Associate Editor: Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Human-Robot Interaction) |
| Since 2020 | Associate Editor Journal of Social Robotics |
| Since 2010 | Journals: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; International Journal for Social Robotics; Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems; Transactions in Human Robotics Interaction; PlosOne; Robotics and Autonomous Systems |
| Since 2010 | Conferences: Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association; Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems; Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; International Conference on Human-Robot-Interaction; International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication; International Conference on Social Robotics; International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction |
| 2016-2017 | Reviewer for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for Calls in (Social) Robotics |
| Organisation of Scientific Meetings | |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Program Committee; HRI Conference; Cambridge, UK |
| 2019 | Co-Chair; HRI Workshop “Human-Machine Communication”, Daegu, Korea |
| 2018 | Co-Chair; Symposium “When Robots Think – Interdisciplinary Views on Intelligent Automation”, Münster, Germany |
| 2018 | Program Committee; HRI Conference, Chicago, USA |
| 2018 | Co-Chair; Symposium “Brains, Big Data and Business”, Duisburg, Germany |
| 2017 | Program Committee; HRI Conference, Wien, Austria |
| 2016 | Co-Chair; Ro-Man Workshop “Challenges of Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Contexts”, New York, USA |
| 2016 | Co-Chair; HRI Workshop “The challenge (not) to go wild - Challenges and best practices to study HRI in natural interaction settings”, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Stipends, Honors, and Awards | |
|---|---|
| 2015-2017 | Member of the Global Young Faculty - Stiftung Mercator |
| 2014 | Dissertation Award of the University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2014 | Dissertation Award of the Sparkasse Duisburg for outstanding dissertations |
| 2011-2013 | Scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 2007-2009 | Scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |
| 2008 | DAAD scholarship (USA, Los Angeles) |
| 2007 | Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Campus Community Collaboration |