Research Profile

I like to apply solutions based on artificial intelligence to address problems in different areas such as robotics, autonomous intelligent systems, well-being, and quality of life technologies, with the primary goal of improving people's daily lives.

Short Bio

I am an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain. Previously, I held the position of WASP-AI Associate Professor at Örebro University in Sweden. From 2016 to 2020, I was a Senior Research Fellow (Ramón y Cajal fellow) at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena in Spain. Prior to that, I served as a Senior Lecturer at University of Lincoln, UK (2013-2016).  From 2010 to 2012, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) working with Prof. Tsutomu Hasegawa and Prof. Ryo Kurazume at Kyushu University, Japan, where I keep a position as a collaborative researcher. From 2009 to 2010,  I was a postdoctoral fellow (Juan de la Cierva) at University of Zaragoza, Spain. I obtained my PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2008, under the supervision of Prof. Wolfram Burgard.