Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annika Raatz

since 2013
Professor in Assembly Technology (W3) and Head of Institute of Assembly Technology and Robotics at Leibniz University Hannover

2007 - 2012
Member of Board of Management of the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF), Technische Universität Braunschweig

2009 - 2013
Head of “Controlling and Finances” and “IT” at the IWF

2005 - 2013
Head of the Department „Assembly and Production Automation“ at the IWF

2006
Conferral of a doctorate in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.), TU Braunschweig (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)
Topic: „Pseudo-elastic shape memory alloy flexure hinges in parallel robots“ (degree: summa cum laude)

1991 - 1997
Studies: Mechanical Engineering, TU Braunschweig

1990 - 1991
Studies: Mathematics, Physics and Sports, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel

Functions (selected):

• Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Leibniz University Hannover
• DFG Liaison Officer (for Leibniz University Hannover)
• Spokesperson DFG Priority Programme „Soft Material Robotic Systems“ (SPP 2100)
• Member of board SFB TRR 277 „Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC) - The Challenge of Large Scale“
• Member of board Centre of Hannover Centre for Production Technology (PZH)
• Commission for Gender Equality (LUH)
• Scientific Committee of the WGP

Membership in scientific societes (selected):

• Member "Collège International pour la Recherche en Productique" (CIRP)
• Member "Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Montage, Handhabung und Industrierobotik" (MHI)
• Member "German Academic Association for Production Technology" (WGP)
• Member "National Academy of Science and Engineering" (acatech)
• Member "European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology"

Membership scientific committees (selected):

• CIRP Conf. on Assembly Technologies and Systems (CATS)
• IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)
• IEEE/IFToMM Int. Conf. on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR)
• Medical and Service Robotics (MESROB)

Reviewer (selcted):

• DFG
• AvH-Stiftung
• DAAD
• BMBF
• Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
• Max-Planck-Humboldt-Forschungspreises

Reviewer for International Jorunals and Confernces (selected):

• Mechanical Design
• Mechanism and Machine Theory
• Transactions on Mechatronics
• Assembly Automation
• Industrial Robot
• Mechanical Engineering Science
• Scripta Materialia
• Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
• International Conference on Robotics and Automation