As part of this year's VDI Land.Technik conference in Osnabrück, the Max-Eyth-Gedenkmünze of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) was awarded to ATB scientist Prof. Dr Cornelia Weltzien on 6 November 2024. The renowned engineer is being honoured for her outstanding achievements and services to the development and promotion of the digitalisation of agriculture and her tireless commitment to promoting young scientists.
The Max-Eyth-Gedenkmünze has been awarded since 1950 for outstanding individual achievements in the field of agricultural engineering development. This year, in addition to Prof. Dr Cornelia Weltzien (ATB), Dipl.-Ing. Christian Adler and Dipl.-Ing. Klemens Surmann also received the VDI award.
With her research in agricultural engineering, Cornelia Weltzien is helping to make agriculture more sustainable and efficient. The nationally and internationally recognised and respected expert focuses on the transfer between science and practice with the aim of improving the agriculture of the future and making farmers' work easier. In addition, she is strongly committed to the academic education of the next generation of agricultural engineers. With tireless dedication and exemplary commitment, she is committed to transdisciplinary education for the further development of agriculture, both as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin and in the Joint Lab Artificial Intelligence & Data Science.
Cornelia Weltzien is Head of the Department of Agromechatronics at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) and holds the professorship "Agromechatronics - Sensor-based Process Control in Agriculture" at the Technical University of Berlin. Together with her team at ATB, she is exploring the potential of digitalised agriculture. Among other things, she is working on technical solutions to enable diversification in crop farming:
She automatises field robots that intelligently weed.
She developes electric attachments for e-tractors that mow in a biodiversity-, climate- and plant-friendly manner.
She brings 5G and AI to fields to enable precise and efficient data-based farming.
Dr Markus Demmel, Chairman of the Max-Eyth-Gesellschaft Agrartechnik (VDI-MEG), emphasised in his laudatory speech: “Even if Cornelia Weltzien would never make a fuss about it, she is a great female role model in disciplines that are still heavily dominated by men.”
Prof Barbara Sturm, Scientific Director at ATB, congratulates: “We are delighted for our esteemed colleague Cornelia Weltzien. This award once again shows the great appreciation of her work, which we fully share. Congratulations!”
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