Mirko Kovac

Prof. Mirko Kovac is currently the Founder and Director of the Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics at both the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). They also hold the position of Honorary Professor in Aerial Robotics at Imperial College London. Previously, Prof. Kovac was a full Professor at Imperial College London and a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University, having completed their PhD at EPFL and received their undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 2005. With a focus on mobile robots for distributed sensing and autonomous manufacturing, their research has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications and numerous keynote lectures.