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Anna-Lisa Vollmer is a Professor for Interactive Robotics in Medicine and Nursing at the OWL Medical Faculty of Bielefeld University. She holds key affiliations with the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) and Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, while serving as Project Manager for TRR 318 Subproject B05 and member of multiple Medical Faculty committees including Habilitation and APL Committees.
She earned her Diplom in Mathematics in 2007 and completed her doctorate in 2011 at Bielefeld's Research Center for Cognition and Robotics in cooperation with Honda Research Institute Europe. Her postdoctoral work included positions at University of Plymouth (2011-2014) focusing on human-robot adaptivity and INRIA Bordeaux/ENSTA Paris (2014-2017) researching co-construction in cooperative tasks, before joining Bielefeld's EXC 277 CITEC in 2017 and transitioning to the OWL Medical Faculty in 2020.
Her research centers on enabling co-constructive task learning between robots and laypeople in healthcare settings through investigations of human teaching behavior's cognitive foundations. She develops robot learning approaches, adaptive behavior systems, and multimodal interfaces specifically for medical and nursing contexts where individual user preferences must be dynamically learned, addressing critical implementation challenges like acceptance and real-world transfer.
She leads the DFG-funded TRR 318 'Constructing Explainability' as Principal Investigator and the 'Reducing Mental Model Mismatch for Cooperative Robot Teaching' project with Honda Research Institute Europe, while contributing to the MKW NRW-funded SAIL initiative on sustainable socio-technical systems.
Vollmer directs the 'Interactive Robotics in Medicine and Nursing' working group and participates in CITEC's research ecosystem and the Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition-enabled AI, driving interdisciplinary innovation at the human-robot healthcare interface.