Paolo Dario: Short Biographical Sketch

Paolo Dario received his Dr. Eng. Degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1977. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa.. He also established and teaches the course on Mechatronics at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa. He has been Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, and at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He was the founder of the ARTS (Advanced Robotics Technologies and Systems) Laboratory and is currently the Co-ordinator of the CRIM (Center for the Research in Microengineering) Laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where he supervises a team of about 70 researchers and Ph.D. students. He is also the Director of the Polo Sant'Anna Valdera and a Vice-Director of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. His main research interests are in the fields of medical robotics, mechatronics and microengineering, and specifically in sensors and actuators for the above applications. He is the coordinator of many national and European projects, the editor of two books on the subject of robotics, and the author of more than 200 scientific papers. He is the editor of many international journals. Prof. Dario serves as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, as Co-Chairman of the Technical Committee on Medical Robotics of the same Society, is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of the Joseph Engelberger Award. He is also a member of the Board of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR).