Sebastian Trimpe is a Full Professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he heads the Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering (DSME) since May 2020. Additionally, he is a founding director of the RWTH Center for Artificial Intelligence and, as of 2023, serves as one of its two Executive Directors. Sebastian's research focuses on fundamental questions at the crossroads of machine learning, control, networked systems, and robotics, with innovative applications thereof. Prior to his role at RWTH, he was a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen/Stuttgart. Sebastian earned his Ph.D. degree in 2013 from ETH Zurich, working with Raffaello D'Andrea at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control.