TU Darmstadt computer scientist Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea, the pan-European academy of sciences, humanities and letters. With this honor, the academy recognizes her long-standing academic excellence and internationally visible research in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

The Academia Europaea was founded in 1988 as an independent, non-governmental scientific society with the aim of promoting learning, education, and research across the full range of scholarly disciplines. Membership is by invitation only, following a rigorous peer-review and evaluation process conducted by expert committees and confirmed by the academy’s council. With this election, Iryna Gurevych joins a distinguished circle of more than 5,500 members from across Europe, including numerous Nobel and Turing Award laureates.

Iryna Gurevych is LOEWE-funded Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the TU Darmstadt and founding director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab. She is also affiliated as Adjunct Professor with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in UAE and INSAIT in Bulgaria. Gurevych is one of the world’s leading researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In 2024, she became the first German university professor and the first female scientist in Germany to receive the prestigious Milner Award from the Royal Society, the oldest independent scientific academy in the world. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Iryna Gurevych’s entry in the directory of the Academia Europaea