Julien R. Serres was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, in 1978. He obtained an "Agrégation" in Applied Physics (a high-level competitive examination for recruiting teachers in France) at the École Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France, in 2002. He obtained his Master’s degree in Medical Imaging from Paris XI University (Now Paris-Saclay University) and a Master’s degree in Electronics, Electrotechnics, and Automatic Control Engineering from Paris XI University and the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Now ENS Paris-Saclay), France, in 2003. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of Montpellier II, France, in July 2008. He has been a senior lecturer at Aix Marseille University since 2014 and a member of the bio-inspired systems team at the Institute of Movement Sciences-Étienne-Jules Marey, France. He will be a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) from 2022 to 2027. Furthermore, he is the author of more than 100 publications and 4 patents including articles published in 30 indexed peer-reviewed journals and recipient of several best paper awards and honors (IEEE ECMR 2017, Living Machines 2018, The National Trophy IoT Industry & Services in 2019, The 7th International Bionic Award 2020, The 5th County Prize for Research in Provence in 2021). His research interests include biorobotics, bio-inspired visual sensors, flying insect ethology, bio-inspired robotics, and visual localization techniques designed to equip future autonomous vehicles.