Kerstin Dautenhahn is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire in U.K. She has published more than 300 research articles, edited several books and frequently gives invited keynote lectures at international meetings. She has been Principal Investigator of her research team in several European and nationally funded projects. She is Founding Editor in Chief of the journal "Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems", as well as Associate Editor of Adaptive Behaviour, the International Journal of Social Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and the IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. She is also on the Advisory Board of the journal AI and Society.