Domenico Praticchizzo

Domenico Prattichizzo eceived the M.S. degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Robotics and Automation from the University of Pisa in 1991 and 1995,respectively. Since 2002 Associate Professor of Robotics at the University of Siena. Since 2009 Scientific Consultant at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy. In 1994, Visiting Scientist at the MIT AI Lab. Co-author of the Grasping chapter of Handbook of Robotics Springer,2008, awarded with two PROSE Awards presented by the American Association of Publishers. Since 2007 Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Haptics. From 2003 to 2007, Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Robotics and IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technologies. Vice-chair for Special Issues of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics (2006-2010). Chair of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE RAS (2006-2010), awarded with the IEEE 2009 Chapter of the Year Award.Co-editor of two books by STAR, Springer Tracks in Advanced Robotics, Springer (2003,2005). Research interests are in haptics, grasping, visual servoing, mobile robotics and geometric control. Author of more than 200 papers in these fields.