Prof. Giovanni Muscato

Giovanni Muscato received an Electrical Engineering Degree from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 1988. After completing the degree, he worked with the Centro di Studi sui Sistemi, Turin, Italy. In 1990, he joined the DIEEI  University of Catania, where he is currently a Full-Time Professor of robotics and automatic control, and since 2018, he has been the Director of the department. His current research interests include service robotics and the cooperation between ground and flying robots. He was the coordinator of the EC project Robovolc and is the local coordinator of several national and European projects in robotics. He is the author of more than 300 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings and three books in the fields of control and robotics. Prof. Muscato is with the Board of Trustees of the Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR) Association and a senior member of the IEEE.