Biography of ...

Roland Siegwart

EURON's (Summer) Schools organiser:
also EURON's National Representative for Switzerland

Roland Siegwart, Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule) (ETH Zürich), Switzerland. rsiegwart AT ethz.ch Web site

Roland Siegwart (1959) received his M.Sc. ME in 1983 and his Doctoral degree in 1989 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. After his Ph.D. studies he spent one year as a postdoc at Stanford University where he was involved in micro-robots and tactile gripping. From 1991 to 1996 he worked part time as R&D director at MECOS Traxler AG and as lecturer and deputy head at the Institute of Robotics, ETH. Since 1996 he is a full professor for autonomous systems and robots at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), and since 2002 also vice-dean of the School of Engineering. He is the chairman of the recently founded Space Center at EPFL and deputy director of the national center of competence in research on Interactive Multimodal Information Management. Roland Siegwart is heavily involved in EU projects spanning from cognitive science to intelligent cars and jet engines. He leads a research group of around 25 people working in the field of robotics and mechatronics. Roland Siegwart published over 100 papers in the field of mechatronics and robotics including a text book on mobile robotics. He is an active member of various scientific committees and co-founder of several spin-off companies. He was the general Chair of IROS 2002 and he is currently VP for Technical Activities of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.