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Anne Jurkat is a leading researcher in the economics of automation, with a primary focus on the labor market impacts of industrial robotics. Her most significant contribution is her foundational work on the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) database, which she has meticulously documented and analyzed. Her highly cited 2022 paper, “Tracking the Rise of Robots: The IFR Database” (67 citations), has become an essential methodological resource for scholars worldwide, providing a critical guide to the dataset’s strengths and limitations. Jurkat’s research rigorously examines the complex relationship between robot adoption and wages, as demonstrated in her meta-analysis “Robots and Wages: A Meta-Analysis” (2023). She also contributes to the broader public discourse, authoring accessible overviews in German on how robots are reshaping global economies and policy strategies. By establishing the empirical foundations for studying automation’s economic effects, Jurkat has enabled a generation of researchers to more accurately track and understand the ongoing transformation of industrial production and its consequences for workers.