Claudio Urrea was born in Santiago, Chile. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences (Automation) from the University of Santiago of Chile (USACH) in 1999 and 2003, and the Docteur degree in Automatique et Productique from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 he conducted post-doctoral research on fault-tolerant system diagnosis at the Université d'Aix-Marseille III and the CNRS, France. He has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at USACH since 2006, where he is currently a Full Professor. In 2007 he founded the Robotics Laboratory, which he still directs, and since 2011 he has headed the Instrumentation and Electronic Development Center (CIDE). He directed the Ph.D. Program in Engineering Sciences (Automation) from 2013 to 2021 and served as Vice-Rector of Graduate Studies in 2022. His research addresses industrial and collaborative robotics, fault-tolerant control, nonlinear and predictive control, and artificial intelligence applied to robot control and perception. He holds two granted invention patents and has published more than 100 articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. Since 2023, he has been a Guest Editor of Processes (MDPI), leading two Special Issues on the design and control of complex and intelligent systems. In January 2026, he received the "Disruptive Researcher with Trajectory" award at the IV edition of the ICONO Awards of the USACH Faculty of Engineering.