Dr. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová (F) graduated at the Czech Technical University (1992) and obtained her PhD at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (1998). 1999-2000 she held visiting fellowships from the British Academy and Royal Society / NATO at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. 2001-2010 she was as a senior researcher at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. 2012-2023 she coordinated the Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies at the Saarland University. 2010-2022 she was a senior researcher in the Multilinguality and Language Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken, focussing on natural language processing for dialogue systems and human-robot interaction. She lead the Talking Robots Group from 2014 and in 2016 founded the DFKI competence center for Emergency Response and Recovery. She was a coordinator and leader in several large projects on robot-assisted disaster response and on 1.9.2016 lead the deployment of a human-robot team in the earthquake-struck Amatrice in Italy. From January 2023 she leads research, development and transfer at the German Rescue Robotics Center (DRZ). She has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and h-score 25.