Ivan Maza is associate professor at the University of Seville (Spain), received his telecommunication engineering degree in 2000 and joined the GRVC Robotics Lab. His thesis was awarded the Robotnik Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation on Robotics given by the Spanish Committee of Automation in 2010. He has authored more than 80 publications on robotics including more than 30 journal papers indexed in the JCR database and the co-edition of a book published in the Springer STAR Series. His research interests include unmanned aerial vehicles, multirobot systems, symbolic and motion planning and task allocation techniques. He participated as PI from the University of Seville in the ARCAS Project (2011-2015) devoted to the development and experimental validation of the first cooperative free-flying robot system for assembly and structure construction. In addition, he has participated as co-PI from the University of Seville in the SAFEDRONE Project (2018-2020) funded by EU SESAR JU for the demonstration with drones of U-Space services. He has been also PI in several R&D contracts related to different UAV technologies with companies such as Boeing Research and Technology Europe, Navantia and TSK. 1in 2021, he received the “Manuel Losada Villasante Award” for excellent researchers in the innovation category for his work on drone traffic management within the U-space context.