Daniela Macari awarded the 2024 MPI-IS Gender Equality Prize

cls 12 December 2024 News
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CLS doctoral fellow Daniela Macari has been awarded the 2024 MPI-IS Gender Equality Prize. This prize is awarded by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems to honor a member of the institute who has contributed significantly to gender equality in recent years. In 2024, the prize is being awarded for the fourth time. Daniela shares the 2024 prize with fellow MPI-IS researcher Ksenia Keplinger.

Daniela Macari is conducting her doctoral research on electrohydraulic artificial muscles for high-performance actuation under the supervision of Christoph Keplinger (Director of the Robotic Materials Department, MPI-IS) and Stelian Coros, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, and head of the Computational Robotics Lab (CRL).

Since joining CLS in 2021, Daniela has been passionate about diversity issues and has been highly active in this regard, for example, co-organising get-togethers of the MPI-IS Athena Group in Stuttgart. In particular, she is a co-author of a viewpoint article published in Science Robotics in December 2024, which outlines the benefits of workforce diversity and inclusive leadership for robotics research, and additionally serves as a leadership guide to fellow roboticists who wish to accelerate the pace of innovation within their own teams. Read more about this in the news item Diversity and inclusion accelerate the pace of innovation in robotics.

The prize winners share up to 2,000€ to support attending a conference or workshop of their choice. Congratulations Daniela!