Tanja Kaiser

Tanja Kaiser is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at the University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany. She leads a junior research group and serves as an Ada Lovelace Distinguished Research Fellow at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig and Technische Universität Dresden. Her work spans evolutionary robotics, swarm intelligence, and collective behavior in autonomous systems.

• Dr.-Ing., Computer Science, University of Lübeck (2022)
• M.Sc., Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin (2017)
• B.Sc., Computer Science, DHBW Stuttgart (2014)

Kaiser focuses on multi-robot systems and surprise minimization in swarm robotics. Her research explores evolutionary algorithms, self-organization, and autonomous decision-making, with applications in UAV tracking and onboard manipulation behaviors. Recent publications emphasize dynamic collective behaviors and task-independent behavior characterization.

Kaiser’s scientific contributions include awards like the Bernd Fischer Prize (2023). She actively contributes to academic equity as a representative for the equity of women in sciences and arts at the University of Technology Nuremberg.