Aníbal Ollero

Biography

Aníbal Ollero (born in Seville) is a Spanish robotics engineer, university professor, and researcher. He is currently one of the world’s leading researchers in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aerial robotics, and is among the world’s most published researchers in these fields.

Aníbal Ollero holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and is a Professor and Director of the GRVC-Robotics Lab at AICIA-University of Seville and Scientific Director of the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies also in Seville. . He held professorships at the University of Málaga and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Vigo Campus) and has been researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh PA, USA) and LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse, France).

His research focuses on aerial robotics, including perception, manipulation, and autonomous systems, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). At the University of Seville, he leads a world-renowned research group in aerial robotics and participates in numerous European, national and industrial research projects.
He is an IEEE Fellow,  a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, and also member of the Royal Science Academies of Galicia and Seville.

Professor Ollero has authored more than 900 scientific publications, including several books, making him one of the world’s most prolific researchers in unmanned aerial vehicles and aerial robotics.

Throughout his career, he has received more than 35 awards and honours. Among the most notable are the Overall ICT Innovation Radar Award, presented by the European Commission in 2017; the King Jaime I Award for New Technologies in 2019, for which the jury praised his “invaluable ability to combine excellence in research and technological innovation with the transfer of technology to industry in the field of aerial robotics”; and the Leonardo Torres Quevedo National Research Award, which he received in 2021.

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