He received the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control and Robotics from the Dept. Information Engineering of the University of Siena, and the Dept. Advanced Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology.
From 2014 to 2016 was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Dept. Advanced Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
From January 2017 to October 2019, he was Assistant Professor at the Business Development and Technology Department, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark.
Since October 2019, he is Associate Professor in the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, at Herning (Denmark).
His research interest is in designing, studying and controlling cutaneous feedback devices for wearable haptics for robotic and computer interaction applications.
is an Associate Professor of Robotics and AI at the University of Nottingham since 2024, with his primary affiliation with the Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies (CHART) group. Prior to joining CS @ Nottingham, he was a Researcher, non-tenured (2018-2023), at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy, leading the VICARIOS Mixed Reality and Simulations Lab, where his research focused on mixed reality, immersive remote telerobotics in hazardous environments, 3D data for real-time visualisation in MR, haptics and MR for training, control simulations for novel robotic devices, among other topics. He was PI and co-I for multiple collaborative projects, with R&D funding exceeding €7 million. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral fellow (2012-2017) in Telesurgery at IIT, Italy. Nikhil received his PhD in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on Robotics, in 2012, from the North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA, his Master's in Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering in 2007, from NCSU itself, and his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from the College of Engineering (COEP), Pune, India.
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Development and Technology of Aarhus University and co-director of the Extended Reality and Robotics lab (xR2). Holds a bachelor's and master's degrees on Engineering and management UK and a PhD Greece. In the past he worked as a freelance engineer and participated and managed teams of developers from design to production in EU projects. Currently Konstantinos leads Danish funded projects on immersive technologies. Konstantinos has published several research articles in international conferences/journals, served as guest editor in journals and chaired conference venues (like NordiCHI tutorials and CHI journals).
(SM'20) is a tenured researcher at CNRS-IRISA in Rennes, France, since 2016. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy. Pacchierotti earned his PhD at the University of Siena in 2014. He was Visiting Researcher in the Penn Haptics Group at University of Pennsylvania in 2014,
the Dept. of Innovation in Mechanics and Management at University of Padua in 2013, the Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine (MIRA) at University of Twente in 2014, and the Dept.
Computer, Control and Management Engineering of the Sapienza University of Rome in 2022. Pacchierotti received the 2014 EuroHaptics Best PhD Thesis Award and the 2022 CNRS Bronze Medal. He is Senior Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics and Secretary of the Eurohaptics Society.
Dr Orestis Georgiou is an author of 6 patents, 1 book, and 100+ academic papers that have been published in leading journals and conferences of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering and Medicine. He has also been co-awarded R&D grants more than €10 million, including a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, and is the recipient of the prestigious 2019 IEEE Heinrich Hertz award. Finally, as Head of R&D Partnerships at Ultraleap, he is passionate about haptic technologies, networks, and spatial XR computing and oversees all our external R&D collaboration activities and grant-funded projects.
Guido Gioioso got his Master Degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Robotics and Automation at the University of Siena.
Author of more than 20 peer-reviewed papers published on top scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, he focused his research activity on human-inspired robotic manipulation and haptics. During his PhD he was visiting student at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics of Tübingen. Today he is one of the co-founders and CEO of WEART, a startup developing revolutionary wearable and portable haptic devices for VR/AR and augmented digital experiences. His activity focuses on business development and management of the company.