Franziska Mathis-Ullrich received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering and robotics and the Ph.D. degree in microrobotics from ETH Zurich, in 2009, 2012, and 2017, respectively. Since 2019, she has been an Assistant Professor with the Health Robotics and Automation Laboratory, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where she is currently an Assistant Professor of medical robotics. She is also the Vice President of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC). Her primary research interests include minimally invasive and cognition controlled robotic systems and embedded machine learning with emphasis on applications in surgery. She received the IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in medical robotics, in 2014, the IEEE BioRob Best Student Paper Award, in 2016, and won twice with her team the first prize of the ICRA Microassembly Challenge, in 2014 and 2015. She also made it onto the prestigious Forbes “30 under 30” list, in 2017.