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Antonio Franchi holds a joint appointment as full professor in aerial robotics control at the University of Twente (EEMCS Faculty, RAM department), Enschede, The Netherlands, and full professor at the Sapienza University of Rome (DIAG department), Rome, Italy.
He is an IEEE Fellow.
From 2022 till 2023 he was a Full Professor at the University of Twente. From 2019 till 2021 he was an Associate Professor at the University of Twente. From 2019 till 2023 he was an Affiliated Researcher at LAAS-CNRS. From 2014 to 2019 he was a Permanent Researcher at CNRS and the leader of the aerial robotics activities at LAAS-CNRS. From 2010 to 2013 he was a Research Scientist and then a Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany, and the scientific leader of the group “Autonomous Robotics and Human Machine Systems”. He received the Laurea (M.Sc.) degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in System Engineering (Feb. 2010) from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. In 2009 he was a visiting student at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
He received both the French and Italian Professorial Habilitation for Full-professorship (HDR and ASN resp.) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse and the Italian Ministry of University and Research in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
His main research interests lie in the robotics area, with a special regard to control and estimation problems and applications ranging across motion and physical interaction control, decentralized control/estimation/coordination, haptics, and hardware/software architectures. His main areas of expertise are aerial robotics and multiple-robot systems.
From 2010 till 2023, he advised 10 Postdoctoral fellows and 13 graduated PhD candidates (8 currently with a tenured position in academia), and he is currently mentoring 8 PhD candidates. In 2019 one of his mentored PhD thesis won three academic awards, among which the 1st place in the French National Award given to PhD theses in the field of Robotics.