# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maarja-kruusmaa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:35.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maarja-kruusmaa"
name: "Maarja Kruusmaa"
slug: "maarja-kruusmaa"
description: "Maarja Kruusmaa is an Estonian computer scientist, professor at Tallinn University of Technology, vice-rector for research and head of the biorobotics center at that university. Her main research area is bio-inspired underwater robotics to imitate the movements of fish and turtles."
tagline: "Estonian roboticist (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maarja_Kruusmaa_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1970-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.068394666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Maarja Kruusmaa"
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    title: "Maarja Kruusmaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarja_Kruusmaa"
    title: "Maarja Kruusmaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maarja_Kruusmaa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarja_Kruusmaa"
    title: "Maarja Kruusmaa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Марја Крусма"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12369386"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump