I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas at Arlington under the supervision of Professor Dr. Fillia Makedon. I am also assistant director of Heracleia Lab.

In 2019, I received my Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Bremen under the supervision of Professor Dr.-Eng. Axel Gräser. The title of my Ph.D. Thesis is: "Robot learning from human demonstrations for human-robot synergy". Before that, I received my M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and my M.Sc. degree in Automation systems both from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2012 and 2014, respectively.

My primary research interests are on the fields of Robot Learning from Human Demonstrations, Human-Robot Interaction and Assistive Robotics with a special focus on Enhancing Human Performance.

email: maria.kyrarini (at) uta.edu