Keynote Speakers
Prof. Teresa Zielinska
Deputy Director of the Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Biography: Prof. Teresa Zielińska is a Full Professor in Technical Sciences and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT). She graduated from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at WUT (M.Sc.), obtained her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at WUT, and completed her habilitation at the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
She is a member and Vice-Chair of the Committee of Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She previously served as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Section in Poland (2016–2019) and as Secretary General of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM) from 2011 to 2019, an organization uniting over 40 member countries ([http://iftomm.net/](http://iftomm.net/)).
Prof. Zielińska is President of the Indo-European Universities Network HERITAGE (30 universities), which aims to strengthen higher education cooperation—both in research and training—between Europe and India in the field of engineering sciences ([https://heritagenetwork.org/english-version/governance](https://heritagenetwork.org/english-version/governance)). She is also a member of the CHIST-ERA Advisory Board, a European coordination and cooperation activity of national and regional research funding organizations, where she advises on research funding strategies in the area of information technology. From 2019 to 2022, she served as a member of the Council of the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland.
She is the local coordinator of the international programs European Master on Advanced Robotics (EMARO) and Japan-Europe Master on Advanced Robotics (JEMARO) , and she previously served as a member of the Team of Experts at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2017–2018).
Prof. Zielińska has conducted research at several leading universities, including the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy, under a grant from the Italian Ministry of Education), Loughborough University of Technology (United Kingdom, under a grant from the Science and Engineering Research Council), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), where she was employed as a Senior Research Fellow.
She has also been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore , Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), Keio University (Hiyoshi, Japan), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), and Waseda University (Japan). She has collaborated with The Ohio State University (USA) within the framework of the Poland–USA Marie Curie-Skłodowska Fund.
Prof. Zielińska is a co-recipient of two national patents and the author or co-author of over 300 scientific publications. She has received numerous awards, including the Award of the Minister of Higher Education (Poland) for her research monograph, the Gold Cross of Merit , and the Medal of the Commission of National Education , as well as multiple university-level awards for research excellence.
Her research interests focus on robotics, particularly the development of real-time control systems, motion synthesis, and the design of novel robotic systems. She has worked extensively on walking machines, humanoid and mobile robots, and has developed a sensor prototype for measuring shear forces and a control system for teams of autonomous walking machines. Her current research is centered on bio-robotics .
Prof. Zielińska serves on several national and international journal editorial boards and has managed or participated in numerous national, European, and international research grants.
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Keynote Speakers of ICMERR2025
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Prof. Hamid Reza Karimi |
Assoc. Prof. Bruno Domenech |
Prof. Joanna Kwiecień |
Assoc. Prof. M. Ilhan Akbas |