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Jessica Burgner-Kahrs is a Professor at the University of Toronto and the founding Director of the Continuum Robotics Laboratory. She has extensive experience in continuum robotics, focusing on design, modeling, planning, control, and human-robot interaction. Her fundamental research in robotics is driven by applications in minimally invasive surgery, as well as maintenance, repair, and operations. Burgner-Kahrs received her Diplom and Ph.D. in computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Before joining the University of Toronto, she was an Associate Professor at Leibniz University Hannover and a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Engineering Science Prize, and the Lower Saxony Science Award in the Young Researcher category. She was also featured in the 'Top 40 under 40' list by business magazine Capital in 2015, 2016, and 2017, and named a 100 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum in 2019. Burgner-Kahrs is a senior member of the IEEE and serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, as well as a senior editor for the IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters.
Leibniz University Hannover • Germany
Served as an Associate Professor, focusing on robotics research.
Vanderbilt University • USA
Conducted research in robotics during a postdoctoral fellowship.
Department of Sociology