The renowned engineer is being honoured for her outstanding achievements and services to the development and promotion of the digitalization of agriculture and her tireless commitment to supporting young scientists.
The Max Eyth Memorial Coin has been awarded since 1950 for outstanding individual achievements in the field of agricultural technology development. This year, in addition to Prof. Dr.-Ing. 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 recognized and valued expert focuses on the transfer between science and practice with the aim of improving the agriculture of the future and making the work of farmers easier. She is also heavily involved in 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 the ATB, she is exploring the potential of digitalized agriculture. Among other things, she is working on technical solutions to enable diversification in crop cultivation:
- She automates field robots that weed intelligently.
- It is developing electric attachments for e-tractors that mow in a biodiversity-, climate- and plant-friendly way.
- It brings 5G and AI to fields to enable data-based, precise and efficient farming.
Dr. Markus Demmel, Chairman of the Max-Eyth-Gesellschaft Agrartechnik (VDI-MEG), emphasized 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 of the 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!"
