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!