I am a roboticist focusing on the cognitive and AI aspects of robotics. His interest lies in understanding cognitive processes and their application to developing increasingly autonomous and safer interactive intelligent systems for industrial and assistive purposes.
I received a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, in 2010. I specialised in embedded systems and applied artificial intelligence. In 2016 I completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Hamburg (Germany). My Ph.D. research concerned computational models for adaptive robot behaviour based on neural mechanisms of self-preservation.
Since my electronic engineering studies, then working in the industry as student assistance in parallel to my studies and later as an engineer, I have been involved in automation and robotic projects. I have learned about both hardware and software development and developed my technical and scientific skill set. I enjoy the challenge of continually learning and developing custom automation and robotics solutions in dynamic and multidisciplinary environments.
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Education
| May 2016 | Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Feb 2010 | Electronics Engineer Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile |
| Aug 2006 – Jan 2008 | International Exchange Program – Programa Ingeniería-DAAD Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
| Sep 2006 | Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile |
Pedagogical/Teacher Training
| Feb 2025 | Cotutelle/Binationale Promotionen – Was ist zu beachten? International Office at the Leibniz University Hannover |
| Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 | Teacher Training Programme Centre for Educational Development at Aarhus University, Denmark |
| May 2019 | Two-Days Course in PhD Supervision Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Jan 2018 | Cultural Awareness Training Aarhus University, Denmark |
Research Integrity Qualifications
| Nov 2020 | Research Integrity at Aarhus University Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Oct 2017 | Protecting Human Research Participants Cognition and Behavior Lab at Aarhus University, Denmark |
Professional Experience
| Feb 2023 – Present | Researcher Group Leader L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany |
| Aug 2021 – Jan 2023 | Senior Researcher Robotics Innovation Center at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Germany |
| Oct 2017 – Jul 2021 | Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Jul 2014 – Sep 2017 | Research and Teaching Associate Knowledge Technology Group at the University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Jun 2010 – Sep 2013 | Research Assistant Knowledge Technology Group at the University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Jan 2010 – May 2010 | Development Engineer Linktronic Ltda., Chile |
| Jun 2008 – Jul 2009 | Research Engineer Southeastern Pacific Research Institute (SEPARI), Chile |
Interships and Part-Time Experience
| Mar 2019 – Mar 2019 | Visiting Researcher Robotics Laboratory at the University of Chile, Chile |
| Feb 2013 – Mar 2013 | Visiting Research Fellow Cognition and Interaction Lab. (COIN) at the University of Skövde, Sweden |
| Jun 2011 – Jun 2011 | Visiting Research Fellow Cognition and Interaction Lab. (COIN) at the University of Skövde, Sweden |
| Mar 2007 – Jan 2008 | Student Internship (Werkstudent) Qimonda Dresden GmbH & Co. OHG., Germany |
| Mar 2005 – Dec 2009 | Research Assistant Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile |
| Dec 2003 – Feb 2004 | Student Internship Viña San Pedro S.A., Maintenance Department, Chile |
| Jul 2002 – Dec 2003 | Teaching Assistant Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile |
Awards, and Fellowships
| Apr 2025 | 15th Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium (BRAGFOST) Nominated and funded by CAPES and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| Jan 2024 | Top 10 Downloaded Articles 2023: Visuo-Haptic Object Perception for Robots: An Overview Autonomous Robots Journal from Springer Nature Group |
| Jan 2006 | International Exchange Program – Programa Ingeniería-DAAD German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
| Aug 2003 | Scholarship Guillermo Feick Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile |
| Mar 2003 | Scholarship Bicentennial Chilean Ministry of Education, Chile |
Evaluation Committees
| Mar 2025 | Grant Reviewer Grant Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
| Dec 2020 | Grant Reviewer Engineering track at Fondecyt, Chile |
| Dec 2020 | Nominated to the External Examiner Corps of Danish Institutions of Higher Education in Engineering (CensorNet) in the field of Electronics, IT and Energy for the period 2018-2022 by Dimitris Chrysostomou from Aalborg University. |
| Nov 2019 | Evaluation Committee for PhD Position Aarhus University Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data and Data Analytics (AU DIGIT) |
Editorial Work
Ad-hoc reviewer of Journals, and Conference, see the detailed list of my verified reviews in Publons https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1481323
| Sep 2024 – Present | Editorial Board Springer Nature Group' npj Robotics Journal |
| Aug 2023 | Guest Editorial Research Topic on Cognitive Inspired Aspects of Robot Learning Frontiers in Neurorobotics |
| Jun 2022 | Guest Editorial Special Issue on Emerging Topics on Development and Learning IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| Jun 2021 | Guest Editorial Special Issue on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| Dec 2021 – Present | Editorial Board Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Computational Intelligence in Robotics Section |
| Sep 2020 – Present | Editorial Board Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Humanoid Robotics Section |
| Mar 2020 – Dec 2024 | Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| Oct 2019 – Present | Editorial Board Frontiers in Neurorobotics |
Affiliations
| Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 | Vice-Chair IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| Nov 2018 – Present | Member Task Force on Developmental Psychology of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| May 2018 – Dec 2021 | Chair Task Force on Action and Perception of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| May 2018 – Jul 2021 | Member Aarhus University Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data and Data Analytics (AU DIGIT) |
| Feb 2018 – Present | Member IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems |
| Dec 2017 – Present | Honorary Member Centro de Innovación y Robótica |
| Jun 2016 – Present | Member IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics |
| Jan 2011 – Present | Member EUCognition – European Society for Cognitive Systems |
Organizing Committee of Scientific Events
Summer Schools
| Dec 2025 – Dec 2025 | Co-Chair 4th Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO) |
| Dec 2024 – Dec 2024 | Co-Chair 3rd Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO) |
| Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Co-Chair 2nd Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO) |
| Sep 2020 – Sep 2020 | Co-Chair 1st Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO) |
| Dec 2019 – Dec 2019 | Publicity Chair IEEE RAS International Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision |
Conferences
| Sep 2025 – Sep 2025 | Journal Track Chair 14th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) |
| Sep 2022 – Sep 2022 | Bridge Chair & Associate Editor 11th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) |
| Mar 2022 – Mar 2022 | Program Committee 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems (ISICS) |
| Aug 2021 – Aug 2021 | Publicity Chair 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) |
| Oct 2020 – Oct 2020 | Program & Finance Chair 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) |
| Dec 2019 – Dec 2019 | Program Committee IEEE Symposium on Domestic Robotics at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI) |
| Jul 2014 – Jul 2014 | Organizing Committee International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) |
| Sep 2012 – Sep 2012 | Co-Organizer Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition (RobotDoC-PhD) at ICANN |
Workshops
| May 2024 | Program Committee Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| Jun 2023 – Jun 2023 | Program Committee 2nd International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots (SentiRobots) at the International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) |
| Jun 2023 – Jun 2023 | Co-Organizer Special Session on Human-in-the-loop Algorithms and System Designs at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) |
| May 2023 – May 2023 | Program Committee Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) |
| Jun 2022 – Jun 2022 | Program Committee 1st International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots (SentiRobots) at the International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) |
| Jun 2022 – Jun 2022 | Program Committee 1st International Workshop on Ubicomp Environments and Proxemic Applications (UbicProxemics) at the International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) |
| May 2022 – May 2022 | Program Committee Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) |
| Oct 2019 | Co-Organizer AU Smart Manufacturing Day |
| Aug 2019 | Session Chair Sensorimotor Development Session at the Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) |
| Aug 2019 | Co-Organizer Workshop on Naturalistic Non-Verbal and Affective Human-Robot Interactions at ICDL-EpiRob |
| Sep 2018 | Co-Organizer Workshop on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning at ICDL-EpiRob |
| Jul 2018 | Organizer Workshop on Next Generation Social Robots at the Akademiet for Talentfulde Unge | Midt – Sommercamp |
| Jul 2018 | Program Committee Workshop on Intelligent Assistive Computing at IEEE WCCI |
| May 2018 | Co-organizer & Speaker Workshop on Social Robotics at the Matchpoints seminar: The Welfare State: New Solutions to Old Problems? |
| Aug 2013 | Co-organizer & Speaker Special Session: Training in Robotics for Development of Cognition (RobotDoC) at ICDL-EpiRob |
Invited Talks
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Visuo-Haptic Object Perception for Robots: An Overview.
Prague, Czech Republic. Research Seminar at the Department of Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Mar 2023. Language: English Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2023 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Designing Safer Robotic Systems.
Talk at 12. Robotics Kongress – Safety, Security und Künstliche Intelligenz. Hanover, Germany. . 8 Feb 2023. Language: English Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2023 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Designing Social Robots.
Talk at Bio Bio AI Robotics Summit. Concepción, Chile. . 9 Jan 2023. Language: Spanish Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2023 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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The Role of Cognitive-Inspired Machine Learning in Autonomous Assistive Systems.
Talk at Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Groningen. Groningen, The Netherlands. . 1 Oct 2020. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2020 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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The Role of Cognitive Robotics in Autonomous Assistive Systems.
Talk at Seminar of the Computational Intelligence and Applications Research Group (CIA) Nottingham Trent University. Nottingham, UK. . 22 Jan 2020. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2020 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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The Role of Cognitive Robotics in Autonomous Assistive Systems.
Talk at GT8 Robotics and Neuroscience Workshop. Bordeaux, France. . 26 Nov 2019. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2019 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Towards Temporal Difference Learning with Multidimensional Value Representations.
Talk at International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. . 1 Jul 2019. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2019 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Towards Temporal Difference Learning with Multidimensional Value Representations.
Talk at Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) Colloquium. Bochum, Germany. . 22 May 2019. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2019 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Towards Temporal Difference Learning with Multidimensional Value Representations.
Talk at Wallenberg Symposium on Affective and Developmental Processes in Cognitive and Autonomous Systems -- Augmenting Deep Learning using Neural Dynamics and Predictive Coding. Gothenburg, Sweden. . 7 May 2019. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2019 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Towards Temporal Difference Learning with Multidimensional Value Representations.
Talk at Centro Avanzado de Tecnología para la Minería (AMTC). Santiago, Chile. . 1 2019. Language: Spanish Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2019 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Designing Social Robots.
Talk at Centro Avanzado de Tecnología para la Minería (AMTC). Santiago, Chile. . 1 2019. Language: Spanish Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2019 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Next Generation Social Robots.
Talk at Akademiet for Talentfuld Unge (ATU) Sommercamp. Herning, Denmark. . 4 Jul 2018. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2018 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Socratic Adventure at the Museum (The SAM project).
Talk at Matchpoints seminar: The Welfare State: New solutions to Old Problems?. Aarhus, Denmark. . 26 May 2018. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2018 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Neurocomputational Mechanisms for Adaptive Self-Preservative Robot Behaviour.
Talk at Congress on Robotics and Neuroscience (CRONE). Valparaíso, Chile. . 27 Oct 2019. Language: Spanish Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2019 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
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Sensorimotor Information for Concrete and Abstract Knowledge Representation.
Talk at Special Session: Training in Robotics for Development of Cognition (RobotDoC) at ICDL-EpiRob. Osaka, Japan. . 18 2013. Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
URL ©2013 Copyright Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
Media Coverage and Activities
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Next Generation Social Robots.
Profile 2018—Department of Engineering, Aarhus University. . 2018. Harel, Kim; URL
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Generando inteligencia artificial.
El Mercurio de Valparaíso. Valparaíso, Chile. . Jun 2009. Aspillaga, Valeria; URL
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USM se adjudica importante proyecto para desarrollar robots anti minas.
Emol. Valparaíso, Chile. . 6 Mar Apr 2009. URL
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Delegación de Defensa de EE.UU. visitó Separi en la U. Santa María.
La Tercera. . 22 Sep 2008. URL
Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
Research Group Leader
Leibniz Universität Hannover
L3S Research Center
Appelstrasse 4
30167 Hannover, Germany
nicolas.navarro@l3s.de
https://www.l3s.de/