Members of the Technical Committee
You could contact each member directly for research related questions. If you would like to know more about our committee then please contact one of the Board members.

Prof. Oscar Altuzarra
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Spain
Mechanism kinematics and dynamics, Parallel manipulators, Flexible/Compliant manipulators

Prof. Sandipan Bandyopadhyay
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
India
Singularity analysis, parallel mechanisms

Prof. Lionel Birglen
Polytechnique Montreal
Canada

Prof. Sébastien Briot
CNRS / LS2N
France
Dynamics, Singularity analysis, Robot design, Continuum robots


Prof. Marco Carricato
University of Bologna
Italy
Screw theory, Cable-driven parallel robots, Robot design, Mobile collaborative robotics, Optimization of servomechanisms


Prof. Hélène Chanal
Clermont Auvergne INP
France
Modelling of parallel and serial robot architectures, Identification

Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian
University of Delaware
USA

Prof. Daniel Condurache
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi
Romania

Prof. Ulf Döring
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Germany


Prof. Raffaele di Gregorio
University of Ferrara
Italy

Prof. Pietro Fanghella
University of Genoa
Italy


Prof. Takashi Harada
Kindai University
Japan

Prof. Just L. Herder
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Compliant mechanisms, static balancing, medical instrumentation

Prof. Kuan-Lun Hsu
National Taiwan University
China-Taipei
Kinematics of machinery, Mechanism and machine design



Prof. Gökhan Kiper
İzmir Institute of Technology
Turkey
Deployable structures, linkages, function generation, Parallel Manipulator Kinematics

Prof. Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania
USA

Prof. Chin-Hsing Kuo
University of Wollongong
Australia
Static balancing design, Reconfigurable mechanisms, Surgical and Assistive robots

Prof. Pierre Larochelle
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
USA


Prof. Haitao Liu
Tianjin University
China-Beijing

Prof. Andreas Müller
Johannes Kepler Universität
Austria

Prof. Jean-Pierre Merlet
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
France
Cable driven robots, assistive robots, interval analysis, parallel manipulators

Prof. Georg Nawratil
Vienna University of Technology
Austria

Prof. Leila Notash
Queen's University
Canada



Prof. Nina Patarinsky Robson
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF)
USA

Prof. Martin Pfurner
University of Innsbruck
Austria
Algebraic methods, Forward kinematics, Inverse kinematics, Singularity analysis

Prof. Charles Pinto
University of the Basque Country
Spain


Prof. Andreas Pott
Universität Stuttgart
Germany

Prof. Rany Rizk
Lebanese University
Lebanon

Prof. Nicolás Rojas
Imperial College London
United Kingdom

Prof. Lotfi Romdhane
Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir
Tunisia

Prof. Matteo Russo
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy
Continuum robots, Mechanism design, Robot kinematics, Parallel manipulators

Prof. Nicola Sancisi
University of Bologna
Italy
Biomechanics: joint modelling, experimental motion analysis, design of medical devices


Prof. Moshe Shoham
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Israel

Prof. Tao Sun
Tianjin University
China-Beijing

Prof. Yukio Takeda
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan

Prof. Tanio Tanev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria


Prof. Mónica Urízar
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Spain
Singularity analysis, Optimal design of parallel manipulators, Reconfigurable robots

Prof. Calin Vaida
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Kinematics and dynamics of parallel robots, Medical robots, Intelligent systems

Prof. Volkert van der Wijk
TU Delft
The Netherlands
Dynamic & Static balancing, Deployable mechanisms, Synthesis, Kinetic Art

Prof. Delun Wang
Dalian University of Technology
China-Beijing

Prof. Philippe Wenger
Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes
France