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Lilia Moshkina is a pioneering researcher in affective robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI), whose work has fundamentally shaped how we understand emotional expression and social behavior in robotic systems. She is best known for developing the TAME framework — a comprehensive model for Time-Varying Affective responses in humanoid robots — which she introduced as early as 2004 and refined through multiple influential publications, collectively accumulating over 100 citations. Her longitudinal studies on how humans perceive affective robotic behavior (60 citations) revealed the deep psychological dimensions of human-robot relationships, while her large-scale observational field study involving over 4,000 participants (52 citations) provided rare empirical grounding for the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) theory. Beyond affect, Moshkina has engaged with applied robotics challenges, contributing to urban search-and-rescue systems and thoughtfully addressing the ethics of lethal autonomous robots. Her development of reusable semantic differential scales for measuring social responses to robots has given the broader HRI community durable methodological tools. Taken together, her body of work bridges engineering, psychology, and ethics, making her a distinctive and vital voice in the field of socially intelligent robotics.