Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt professor for "Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" at the University of Bonn, Germany.

In founding the FRR, van Wynsberghe and Sharkey cited the urgent need for a greater level of accountability and attention to ethics in the design of robots, especially those that complete jobs through automation.

[6] She currently serves as the president of the foundation, organizing multi-stakeholder workshops; writing and disseminating consultation documents and reports; establishing public-private partnerships; and addressing legislative bodies within the European Union.

[11] Van Wynsberghe was a 2015 recipient of an NWO Veni Personal Research Grant[12] to study the ethical design of care robots.

[16] Since 2022, Aimee van Wynsberghe is member of the Academy for Sciences and Literature in Mainz[17] and advisory board of the Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (DAAD).

Aimee van Wynsberghe was featured in Forbes' 2020 list of women leading the 21st-century AI movement due to her significant contributions to the ethics of artificial intelligence[29].