Andrea Cherubini received the M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Rome La Sapienza and a second M.Sc. in Control Systems in 2003 from the University of Sheffield, U.K. In 2008, he received the Ph.D. in Control Systems from the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Rome La Sapienza. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as post-doctoral fellow at Inria Rennes. He is currently Associate Professor at Université de Montpellier, and researcher at LIRMM. His research interests include: sensor-based control, physical human–robot interaction, and humanoid robotics.