January 2026

After 4.5 good years at PAL Robotics, I am thrilled to announce that I have joined the Institute for Research in Artificial Intelligence (IIIA) of the Spanish National Centre for Scientific Research (CSIC) as a Research Scientist in Artificial Social Cognition.

From January 2026, I will co-lead the newly founded SocialMinds AI lab with Raquel Ros. The lab investigates Artificial Social Cognition with an interdisciplinary perspective, with colleagues from virtual worlds, sociology, education sciences, multi-agent systems, and of course, social robotics.

As you can expect, I will primarily focus on social robotics, developing a new line of research around deep representation for social cognition and social learning.

Exciting times ahead!

Summer 2021

A worldwide pandemic and the Brexit made it: after 6 years in the UK and 3 fantastic years at Bristol Robotics Lab, we are moving to Barcelona! and I am super excited to join PAL Robotics where I'll take the lead on the development of new social capabilities for their service robots.

Cherry on the cake: PAL Robotics has a great community ethos. Expect our cool social tech to be open-source!

November 2020

I am currently developing a new online tool to study social interaction in robotics, in a playful and... COVID-friendly way! I plan to have it both as a tool to teach robotics (incl. ROS) & human-robot interaction, but also as a research platform to conduct more immersive and interactive online studies.

First release expected early 2021. Stay tuned!