Raúl Rojas is a well-known expert in artificial neuronal networks and artificial intelligence. He is a professor of mathematics and I.T. at the Berlin Free University. This work won him the Professor of the Year Award from the German Teachers Society in 2014.
His best-known work is Spirit of Berlin, a self-driving car project. The FU-Fighter football robots built by his research team were world champions in 2004 and 2005. His research has also had a social aspect, like a reading apparatus for the blind, a reading camera that is worn over glasses that reads texts automatically, which won him the WissnesWertes Prize, or an autonomous wheelchair controlled by brain waves.
Rojas studied his degree at the Higher School of Physics and Mathematics of the National Polytechnic Institute and he has a Master’s Degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He got a PhD in Economics from the Berlin Free University and qualified in Computer Sciences, also at the Berlin Free University.