Pilipp Slusallek is scientific director and member of the executive board at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the research area on Agents and Simulated Reality. He co-founded and is director of strategy at the European AI initiative CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe, claire-ai.org) since 2018. He was a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence for the European Commission.

His research covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence in a broad sense, simulated/digital reality, real-time and realistic graphics, high-performance computing and simulation, motion synthesis, novel programming models for CPU/GPU/FPGA, computational science, and others.