Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner

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Facility

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Department of Computer Science

Adaptive Systems

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Telephone

030 2093-41200

Postal address

Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin

Registered office

Johann von Neumann-Haus, Institutsgeb?ude, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin

Room

4.122

Facility

Dean / Deputy Dean

Dean

Faculty Management

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Professor/in

Email

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Telephone

030 2093-41200

Postal address

Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin

Registered office

Johann von Neumann-Haus, Institutsgeb?ude, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin

Room

4.122

Research projects

Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster01/2026 - 03/2027
Modeling Neurogenesis for Continuous Learning
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster01/2026 - 12/2027
Adaptivity in learner-teacher interaction
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster01/2026 - 12/2026
Observational learning in children and robots
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
BMWE: EXIST10/2024 - 09/2025
AIOS
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster06/2024 - 12/2025
Observational learning in developing humans and artificial agents
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster06/2023 - 05/2026
Adaptivity in learner-teacher interaction
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
Horizon Europe: EIC Pathfinder10/2022 - 09/2026
A Metapredictive Model of Synthetic Awareness for Enabling Tool Invention (METATOOL)
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Priority Programme02/2022 - 12/2026
An Embodied AI Approach to Measures of the Self
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
Berlin University Alliance (BUA)10/2020 - 10/2023
Social Cohesion and Civil Society. Interaction Dynamics in Times of Disruption
Project management: Prof. Dr. Jule Specht, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf, Prof. Dr. Hanna Schwander, Prof. Dr. Ursula Hess, Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster10/2019 - 09/2024
EXC 2002/1: From Understanding Learners’ Adaptive Motivation and Emotion to Designing Social Learning Companions (SP 06)
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner, Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster09/2019 - 09/2023
EXC 2002/1: Multimodal Interaction and Communication (SP 09)
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rasha Abdel Rahman
Project
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Research subsidy09/2019 - 02/2020
Predictive Autonomous Behaviour - Internal Models and Predictive Self-regulation
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster06/2019 - 03/2023
EXC 2002/1: Anticipation, Prediction, and Behavioural Reliability in Social Interactions (SP 10)
Project management: Prof. Dr. Jens Krause, Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
Horizon 2020: Research and Innovation Action (RIA)04/2019 - 03/2024
HIVEOPOLIS – Futuristic beehives for a smart metropolis
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Priority Programme02/2019 - 01/2023
Prerequisites for an Artificial Self
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster01/2019 - 12/2025
EXC 2002: Science of Intelligence (SCIoI)
Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen, Prof. Dr. Pawel Romanczuk, Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rasha Abdel Rahman, Prof. Dr. phil. Martin Rolfs, Prof. Dr. Jens Krause
Project
Horizon 2020: Research and Innovation Action (RIA)11/2017 - 04/2022
EU: ROMI – Robotics for Microfarms
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
05/2016 - 12/2016
Roboterfu?ball
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
04/2016 - 04/2017
Sponsoring Nao Robots
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
08/2015 - 08/2015
Roboterfu?ball für den Tag der Offenen Tür des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie am 29. und 30. August 2015
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
DFG other programmes08/2015 - 06/2017
Internal model-based decision making in robots
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
08/2014 - 08/2014
Roboterfu?ball für den Tag der Offenen Tür des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie am 30. und 31. August 2014
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
Other higher education funding organisations06/2014 - 12/2015
Nao Team Humboldt - RoboCup
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
01/2014 - 12/2016
Embodied Audition for RobotS
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
10/2013 - 09/2014
German-Israeli Minerva School on Cognitive Robotics
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation04/2012 - 12/2014
Coherent behaviour and cognitive robotics. New learning strategies.
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy09/2010 - 08/2011
VESCAPE
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
01/2010 - 12/2013
INTeractive RObotics Research Network
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner
Project
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt12/2009 - 04/2013
ADLER
Project management: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Verena Hafner

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Research projects

Modeling Neurogenesis for Continuous Learning

Adaptivity in learner-teacher interaction

Observational learning in children and robots

AIOS

Observational learning in developing humans and artificial agents

Adaptivity in learner-teacher interaction

A Metapredictive Model of Synthetic Awareness for Enabling Tool Invention (METATOOL)

An Embodied AI Approach to Measures of the Self

Social Cohesion and Civil Society. Interaction Dynamics in Times of Disruption

EXC 2002/1: From Understanding Learners’ Adaptive Motivation and Emotion to Designing Social Learning Companions (SP 06)

EXC 2002/1: Multimodal Interaction and Communication (SP 09)

Predictive Autonomous Behaviour - Internal Models and Predictive Self-regulation

EXC 2002/1: Anticipation, Prediction, and Behavioural Reliability in Social Interactions (SP 10)

HIVEOPOLIS – Futuristic beehives for a smart metropolis

Prerequisites for an Artificial Self

EXC 2002: Science of Intelligence (SCIoI)

EU: ROMI – Robotics for Microfarms

Roboterfu?ball

Sponsoring Nao Robots

Roboterfu?ball für den Tag der Offenen Tür des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie am 29. und 30. August 2015

Internal model-based decision making in robots

Roboterfu?ball für den Tag der Offenen Tür des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie am 30. und 31. August 2014

Nao Team Humboldt - RoboCup

Embodied Audition for RobotS

German-Israeli Minerva School on Cognitive Robotics

Coherent behaviour and cognitive robotics. New learning strategies.

VESCAPE

INTeractive RObotics Research Network

ADLER

Further information