dr. Sébastien Krut
Sébastien received the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the Montpellier University of Sciences, Montpellier, France, in 2003. He has been a Post-doctoral fellow with the Joint Japanese-French Robotics Laboratory (JRL) in Tsukuba, Japan in 2004. He is currently a tenured research scientist in Robotics for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), at the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Microelectronics and Robotics (LIRMM), Montpellier, France.
Prof. dr. ir. Just Herder
Just is Professor of Interactive Mechanisms and Mechatronics at Delft University of Technology (0.8 fte) and Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics Design at the University of Twente (0.2 fte). He has widely published in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has received several international awards. He is EC elected member of IFToMM, board member of several international IEEE and ASME conferences, associate editor in different international journals, and Editor-in-Chief in an open-access one. Six start-up companies have emerged from his research and he holds over a dozen international patents in different areas of mechanism design.
dr. ir. Patrice Lambert
Patrice received a M.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the Laval University, Quebec, Canada in 2006 and a Ph.D degree in the field of parallel robots in 2013 from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands. His research interests are in kinematic analysis, design and optimisation of parallel robots as well as synthesis of novel robotic architectures. He is currently a post-doc researcher at the Precision and Microsystems Engineering Department at the Delft University of Technology.