Ph.D. Manuel Ferre Perez

Laurea Degree in Control Engineering and Electronics in 1992 and PhD in Automation and Robotics in 1997, at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). In 1990, he started his research activity at this university, where he is currently a Profesor Titular since 2000. In 1997, he worked as a PostDoc in the Human-Machine System Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He has participated and coordinated several research projects in robotics and automatic control, both at national and international programs. His research interest is focused on automatic control, advanced telerobotics, and haptics. He has two patents of haptic devices and stereoscopic video cameras. He has been a co-editor of Advances in Telerobotics, a book of Springer STAR series and author of many papers on bilateral control and human interfaces for teleoperation.
He is member of IEEE and serves as chair of the RAS Technical Committee on Telerobotics. He is also member of EuroHaptics Society where he serves as Treasurer. He has participated in International Program Committees of several conferences highlighting some editions of IROS and EuroHaptics. He was the chairman of the First Int. Workshop on Telerobotics in 2004 and hosted the EuroHaptics 2008 conference.