Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt has been a professor of political science at TU Darmstadt since 2005 and heads the research group “Comparative Analysis of Political Systems and European Integration Studies.” She is the director of the Hessian Drone Competence Center (HDKZ), the director of the Digital Resilience Xchange (DiReX) Transfer and Application Center, and the deputy director of the Loewe Center of Excellence emergenCITY. In 2011, she was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam by the European Commission for her research on European integration. For the past 20 years, she has led international and interdisciplinary collaborative projects in the fields of EU foreign policy, energy policy, disaster research, and UAS. She has also published approximately 280 articles, including in high-impact international journals.