Raquel Ros, PhD

About Me

I'm a tenured scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC). I graduated in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2003 and obtained my PhD in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, in 2008, studying coordination and collaboration between robots at IIIA-CSIC. I was then awarded the prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship to pursue a postdoc at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse, where I researched models of Theory of Mind (ToM) in robotics until 2010. Following that, I joined Imperial College London in the UK for a second postdoc, this time working with social robots in educational settings to advance the areas of long-term interaction and child-robot interaction. In 2014, I transitioned to industry, working at Cambridge Consultants as part of the User-Centered Design team in innovative product development processes. In 2018, I joined La Salle-Ramon Llull University as a Lecturer, where I grew the research and teaching areas in robotics. I then moved to PAL Robotics in 2022 as a senior scientist in the Human-Robot Interaction team, where I expanded the development of social service robots in the healthcare sector.

My research interests lie in the areas of cognitive systems, multimodal interaction, and mental models for social robots, with a focus on their application in real-world settings, keeping the user at the center of design through co-design processes and public involvement.