Meysam Basiri received his M.Sc. degree in Systems, Control, and Robotics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2010, and a dual Ph.D. degree in Robotics from EPFL, Switzerland, and in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal, in 2015. He is currently a tenured Research Professor at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), IST. His research focuses on aerial robotics, multi-robot systems, field and service robotics, and robot benchmarking. He has participated in several international projects, including RockEU2, SciRoc, SMAVNET, MBZIRC, DURABLE, and was the Principal Investigator Aero.Next and the H2020 projects MADROB and BEAST. He has received multiple distinctions, including two Best Paper Awards from the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) and the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award from IST. He co-led the ISR team that won 1st place in Challenge 3 of the MBZIRC 2020 competition. He was among the initiators of the European Robotics League (ERL) and served for several years on its Technical and Organizing Committee.