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Hi! Welcome to my personal webpage. I completed my bachelor's and master's studies in pure and applied mathematics in 2013. Then, I did my PhD in applied mathematics and robotics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where I developed several geometric and numerical methods to deal with two classical problems in robot kinematics (the inverse kinematics and the singularity identification problem). After finishing my PhD in 2018, I moved to Italy to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Advanced Robotics Department of the Italian Institute of Technology. There, I complemented my background by learning about industrial robotics, automation and applied machine learning. From 2021 - 2022, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Leuven (Belgium), where I used and applied all my previous background to the development of robotic strategies for the optimal disassembly of electric and electronic devices. In particular, I have geometrically characterized both the object to be disassembled and the obstacles present in the workspace to compute an optimal free-from-obstacles trajectory for the robot to execute its tasks. In December 2022, I started again at UPC as Maria Zambrano postdoctoral fellow, where my research has focused on the development of methods to address kinematic problems for closed kinematic chains by means of conformal geometric algebra, algebraic geometry and machine learning. As of the academic year 2023-2024, I have assumed the position of assistant professor of robotics and computer vision at UPC.

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Education

2012

 

Bachelor in Mathematics

University of Murcia, Spain

2013

 

Master in Pure and Applied Mathematics

Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

2018

 

PhD in Automatic Control and Robotics

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

Research stays abroad

January - April 2017 (University of Cambridge)

 

Visiting scholar at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Joan Lasenby. The research focused on exploring the use of conformal geometric algebra in robot kinematics.

Professional experience

2013-2017

 

Research and teaching assistant

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain 

2018-2020

 

Research associate

Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

 

Senior Research Associate

University of Leuven, Belgium

2021-2022

 

Maria Zambrano Postdoctoral Fellow

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

2023

2023-Current

 

Assistant Professor in Robotics

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

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