Paolo DARIO

Professor of Biomedical Robotics. Pro-Rector for Innovation, Knowledge Transfer and University's Third Mission. Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI, Coordinator. The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. Pisa, Italy.

Paolo Dario received his Dr. Eng. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pisa. In 2018 he also received a M.Sc. Degree Honoris Causa in Biomedical Engineering from University Campus Biomedico of Rome. He is currently Professor of Biomedical Robotics, Coordinator of the Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI and Pro-Rector for Innovation, Knowledge Transfer and University's Third Mission at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. He has been the Founding Coordinator of the PhD Program in BioRobotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He has been the Founding Director of the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He is currently the Scientific Director of the ARTES 4.0 National Competence Center of Industry 4.0 promoted by the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy. He is the coordinator of many national and European projects, the editor of two books on robotics, and the author of 400+ journal publications (Scopus). His H-Index is 79 (Scopus), his papers have 28.400+ citations and in March 2015 he was identified by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine as the second most influent scientist in robotics worldwide according to degree centrality and bibliometric criteria. He is co-author of 50+ international patents and co-founder of 5 start-up companies. He is a Founding Editorial Board Member of the journal Science Robotics, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. He has served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in the years 2002-2003. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the European Society on Medical and Biological Engineering, and a recipient of many honors and awards, such as the Joseph Engelberger Award, the IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation in 2014, and the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award 2017 for pioneering the emerging area of BioRobotics, the science and engineering of integrating robotics with biology and medicine. He is also a member of the Board of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). In 2009 he has been appointed Fellow of the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo. He is an “Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana” awarded by the President of the Republic of Italy – 2002.