Anibal Ollero

Anibal Ollero is full Professor and Head of GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the at University of Seville, with 75 members, and Scientific Advisor of the Center for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) also in Seville. He has been full professor at the Universities of Santiago and Malaga (Spain) and researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse, France). He authored more than 750 publications, including 9 books and 200 papers in journals and has been editor of 15 books. He has delivered plenaries and keynotes in more than 100 events including IEEE ICRA 2016 and IEEE IROS 2018. He has been supervisor or co-supervisor of 47 PhD Thesis that have received 11 awards. He led more than 160 research projects, participating in more than 35 projects of the European Research Programmes, being coordinator of 7 and associated or deputy coordinator of 3, all of them dealing with unmanned aerial systems and aerial robots. From November 2018 he is running the GRIFFIN ERC-Advanced Grant with the objective of developing a new generation of aerial robots that will be able to glide, flapping the wings, perch and manipulate by maintaining the equilibrium, and from December 2019 he is the coordinator of the H2020-AERIAL-CORE project with the participation of 15 universities, research centers and companies dealing with aerial robotic manipulators and applications to inspection and maintenance. Additionally, he is involved in 10 H2020 projects and in 12 contract with industries. He has transferred technologies in 37 contracts with companies and has been awarded with 25 international research and innovation awards, including the Rei Jaume I in New Technologies, the Andalusia Award to the Engineering Development, the Overall Information and Communication Technologies Innovation Radar Prize 2017 of the European Commission, and many best paper awards in conferences and societies. He has been also elected between the three European innovators of the year being candidate to the European personalities of the year 2017. He also was the coordinator of the team that won the Challenge 3 of the MBZIRC 2020 International Robotics Competition. He is IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the development and deployment of aerial robots”, and co-chair of the “IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, coordinator of the “Aerial Robotics Topic Group” of euRobotics and member of the “euRobotics Board of Directors” until March 2019. He has been also founder and president of the Spanish Society for the Research and Development in Robotics (SEIDROB) until November 2017.