MADRID 2019 The Future of AGEING

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is Professor and Director of the Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also the Founder and Director of the MIRALab, an interdisciplinary lab in Human Computer Animation, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research domains are social robots, mixed realities and medical simulation. In Singapore, she has developed the robot Nadine alike of herself that is able to speak, recognise people and gestures, express mood and emotions, and remember actions.

During her career, she has received several artistic and scientific awards, among them the 2012 Humboldt Research Award and two Doctor Honoris Causa (from University of Hanover in Germany and from the University of Ottawa in Canada). She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Visual Computer (Springer-Verlag) and is a Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.