Raúl Rojas is a well-known expert in artificial neuronal networks and artificial intelligence. He is a professor of mathematics and I.T. at the Berlin Free University. This work won him the Professor of the Year Award from the German Teachers Society in 2014.

His best-known work is Spirit of Berlin, a self-driving car project. The FU-Fighter football robots built by his research team were world champions in 2004 and 2005. His research has also had a social aspect, like a reading apparatus for the blind, a reading camera that is worn over glasses that reads texts automatically, which won him the WissnesWertes Prize, or an autonomous wheelchair controlled by brain waves.

Rojas studied his degree at the Higher School of Physics and Mathematics of the National Polytechnic Institute and he has a Master’s Degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He got a PhD in Economics from the Berlin Free University and qualified in Computer Sciences, also at the Berlin Free University.

Freie Universität Berlin was founded in 1948 by professors and students, in response to the persecution faced by students who took a critical eye of the system at Universität Unter den Linden, at that time located in the Soviet sector of the divided city of Berlin. The idea of founding a free university found widespread support in the international community, including financial support. This outpouring of aid helped pave the way for Freie Universität to become a university with an outstanding international reputation. Today, Freie Universität is one of Germany's leading research universities. The principles of freedom and internationality have guided the university’s development ever since.