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

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

Prof. Stéphane Caro

CNRS / LS2N
France

Cable-driven parallel robots, Reconfigurable parallel robots

Prof. Marco Carricato

University of Bologna
Italy

Screw theory, Cable-driven parallel robots, Robot design, Mobile collaborative robotics, Optimization of servomechanisms

Prof. Marco Ceccarelli

University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italy

Prof. Hélène Chanal

SIGMA Clermont
France

Prof. Gregory S. Chirikjian

National University of Singapore
USA

Prof. Daniel Condurache

“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi
Romania

Prof. Ulf Döring

Technische Universität Ilmenau
Germany

Prof. Jian Dai

King's College London
UK

Reconfigurable mechanisms, meta-morphic linkages

Prof. Raffaele di Gregorio

University of Ferrara
Italy

Prof. Clement Gosselin

Université Laval
Canada

parallel manipulators, grasper design, cobots

Prof. Takashi Harada

Kindai University
Japan

Prof. Just L. Herder

Delft University of Technology
Netherlands

Compliant mechanisms, static balancing, medical instrumentation

Prof. Manfred Husty

University of Innsbruck
Austria

Prof. Andres Kecskemethy

University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany

Roller coaster dynamics

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

Prof. Pierre Larochelle

South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
USA

Prof. Jadran Lenarcic

Jozef Stefan Institute
Slovenia

Art (paintings)

Prof. Haitao Liu

Tianjin University
China-Beijing

Prof. Andreas Müller

Johannes Kepler Universität
Austria

Prof. Joao Carlos Mendes Carvalho

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Brazil

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. Erika Ottaviano

University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Italy

Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli

Unversità degli Studi di Bologna
Italy

Biomechanics

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. Doina Pisla

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Romania

Surgical robotics

Prof. Andreas Pott

Universität Stuttgart
Germany

Prof. Rany Rizk

Lebanese University
Lebanon

Prof. Nicolás Rojas

Imperial College London
UK

Prof. Lotfi Romdhane

Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir
Tunisia

Prof. Jon Selig

Formerly - London South Bank University
UK

Lie algebra

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. Federico Thomas

Institut de Robotica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI)
Spain

Singularities

Prof. Mónica Urízar

University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Spain

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