Malte Helmert is a Professor for Artificial Intelligence at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel. His main research interest is in intelligent problem solving, with a focus on the area of automated planning, as well as, all kinds of combinatorial search and optimization problems, including constraint satisfaction and classical NP-hard graph problems. He has received an ERC Starting and Consolidator Grant, as well as an SNSF Advanced Grant and been involved in several Horizon collaborative projects. His portfolio of funding also includes support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Innosuisse.