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Vasiliki Charisi is a leading researcher at the intersection of child-robot interaction, artificial intelligence, and education. Her work focuses on how social robots and generative AI can support children’s learning, particularly through inquiry-based and co-developmental approaches. In her foundational 2015 paper, she introduced a theoretical framework for child-robot symbiotic co-development, emphasizing the importance of learner autonomy and social interaction—a work that has garnered 18 citations and shaped subsequent research in the field. Charisi’s empirical study on inquiry learning with a social robot demonstrated how robots can encourage children to verbalize their reasoning, offering early evidence of robots’ potential as learning companions. She has also addressed the practical challenges of long-term human-robot interaction in science classrooms, providing design insights for sustained engagement. More recently, her Delphi study on generative AI-powered social robots in education (2025) explores the opportunities and challenges of integrating large language models into educational robots, marking a forward-looking contribution to the field. Charisi’s work is widely cited and influential, and she has also contributed to European policy discussions on the future of robotics, underscoring her role as a thought leader in shaping responsible, child-centered AI and robotics.