Lucia Pallottino

Lucia Pallottino is currently Full Professor at the Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio" and the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Pisa.  She received the "Laurea" degree in Mathematics (1998) and the Doctoral degree in Robotics and Industrial Automation (2002). She has been Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor from 2007 to 2023 of the University of Pisa. She has been Visiting Scholar at M.I.T. (2000-2001) and Visiting Researcher at UCLA, (2004).

She currently is Director of Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio, co-founder of  Proxima robotics srl and X-star Motions srl, Senior Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (since 2020) and Principal Investigator of the DeCAIR Erasmus+ European project and Scientific collaborator in the DARKO European project.

She has been Chair of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Italian Chapter (I-RAS) (Jan. 2015- Dec. 2018), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2021-2023), Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2017-2020) and of the IEEE Transaction on Robotics (2014-2017). She has also been Principal Investigator of the ILIAD European project.

Her main research interests within Robotics are in motion planning and control, optimal control, coordination of multi-robot systems, distributed algorithms.