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Franziska Bocklisch is a leading voice in the future of intelligent manufacturing, where her research sits at the critical intersection of human cognition, automation, and industrial robotics. Her work directly addresses the paradigm shift from Industry 4.0 to a more anthropocentric Industry 5.0, exploring how humans and machines can evolve from mere interaction to genuine teaming. In her highly cited 2023 paper on human-machine teaming, Bocklisch provides a foundational framework for understanding the characteristics and applicability of this concept in smart factories. She further investigates the moral and ethical dimensions of automation, examining how different levels of robotic autonomy influence human decision-making in collaborative scenarios. Her most recent work advances a cognition-based framework for interdisciplinary expert teams, aiming to unlock the full performance potential of semi-automated systems. With a growing body of work accumulating over 27 citations in just two years, Bocklisch is establishing herself as a key architect of the cognitive and social principles that will govern the collaborative factories of tomorrow.