Catharine received her PhD in 2017 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. After
completing her postdoctoral position at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland, she joined TU Delft in August 2019 as an assistant professor.
Her research interest lies on understanding and modeling human interaction to build socially
aware conversational agents able to engage with people in a human-like manner. She is part of the Team Science research team Urban Dialogues, focused on the outcomes and impact of citizen science in the BOLD Cities region.
Email address
C.R.M.M.Oertel@tudelft.nl