Žarko Ćojbašić is a full professor of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Niš, Serbia and is affiliated with its Department of Mechatronics and Control, acting as the Head of the Control Systems Laboratory. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an elected Chair of the Computational Intelligence Chapter of IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section. In 2002, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences in the field of control systems and robotics. He was the former Head of the Department for Mechatronics and Control (2013–2016), and the founder of the Control Systems Laboratory. He was the leader and participant in numerous research and educational projects, and within frameworks of projects and research grants, he stayed at many foreign universities such as the Technical University of Berlin Germany, University of Vigo Spain, Imperial College London UK, University of Poitiers France, University of Bremen Germany, University of Exeter UK, Polytechnic University of Catalonia Barcelona Spain, and others. His research interests include control systems and robotics, intelligent control systems, computational intelligence, mechatronics and biomedical engineering. He is currently acting as a European Union expert in the fields of robotics, control, computational intelligence and biomedical engineering.