Organizers

Laura Aymerich-Franch

Dr. Aymerich-Franch is a Ramón y Cajal research fellow at Pompeu Fabra University. Before that, she was a Marie Curie IOF postdoctoral fellow at EventLab, Barcelona University (2016/17), and at the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, Japan (2014/16). Previously, she was a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar (2012-14) at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University. She has also been a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab (Personal Robots Group), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018/19). She holds a PhD cum laude in Audiovisual Communication (UAB, 2010), a MRes in Behavior and Cognition (UB, 2017), a DEA in Digital Media (UAB, 2007), and a BA in Audiovisual Communication (UAB, 2005). She works with social robots and virtual reality from the Media Psychology approach.



Eduard Fosch-Villaronga

Dr. Fosch-Villaronga is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University (NL) and the co-leader of the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects Working Group at the H2020 Cost Action 16116 on Wearable Robots. Eduard investigates legal and regulatory aspects of robot and AI technologies, with a special focus on healthcare. Eduard recently published the book ‘Robots, Healthcare, and the Law. Regulating Automation in Personal Care’ with Routledge and is interested in human-robot interaction, responsible innovation, and the future of law. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Center at Queen Mary University of London (the UK, 2018) investigating the legal implications of cloud robotics; and at the University of Twente (NL, 2017) as a postdoc, exploring iterative regulatory modes for robot governance. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) in Law, Science, and Technology coordinated by the University of Bologna (IT, 2017), an LL.M. from University of Toulouse (FR, 2012), an M.A. from the Autonomous University of Madrid (ES), and an LL.B. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (CAT, 2011). Eduard is also a qualified lawyer in Spain and his publications are available online.

Amparo Grau Ruiz

Prof. Dr. Ruiz Grau is a Professor of Tax Law at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (ES). She is currently involved in the H2020 INBOTS Project on Inclusive Robotics for a better Society where she works, among others, in Responsible Research and Innovation in Robotics. She has a PhD in law from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, obtained her master in Business Administration from the University San Pablo – CEU and her law degree from the University of Valencia, Spain. Her areas of expertise cover socially responsible organizations, environmental taxation, fiscal federalism, international and comparative taxation, budget law, financing for development.