PhD thesis 'Personalising robot assistance for cognitive training therapy' awarded the Georges Giralt Prize by euRobotics for best European PhD thesis.
Recipient of the AIHUB.CSIC Prize for best AI PhD thesis from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Organized workshops on trust, AI, ethics, and personalization at HRI, RO-MAN, and ICSR conferences.
Guest editor for special issues in journals including International Journal of Social Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and Paladyn Journal of Behaviour and Interaction Studies.
Served as Associate Editor for IROS, RO-MAN, and ICSR.
Multiple papers accepted at RO-MAN 2024 and ACM/IEEE HRI 2024 on robot-assisted frailty assessment, real-time explanations in HRI, and multilingual ASR datasets for social robots.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRII), expected to become Tenured Scientist by early 2026.
Postdoctoral Researcher at Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) on the VALAWAI project, developing AI systems that act and explain behavior based on value systems.
Research Scientist at Pal Robotics (2022–2024) as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the H2020 PRO-CARED project, designing social robots with proactive personalized behavior.
Early Stage Researcher in the Marie Curie ITN SOCRATES project on Quality of Interaction in Eldercare.
Former AI Lead at Cogisen.
Visiting student at University of Naples (2021) and University of Hamburg (2018–19); Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Naples Federico II (2022) collaborating with Prof. Silvia Rossi.