Concepción Monje

Director of the Center for Aeronautical Training and Services of the University Carlos III of Madrid (CATS-UC3M) and has been Secretary of the Systems Engineering and Automation Department in this University. Ph.D. Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Extremadura, Spain, in 2006. For almost 20 years, she has been working on different research projects on robotics and robot control, especially in fractional-order controllers for the control of flexible manipulation.

She had worked with the École Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications of Bordeaux (ENSEIRB), Electrical, Electronic, Automatic and Communications Engineering Department of the Technic High School of Industrial Engineers of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems of Utah State University in the USA, IEEE Control Systems Society San Diego Section, and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

She has published more than 100 research papers in high-impact conferences and journals on control and robotics. She has also received the Best Paper (2008-2010 Springer), Best Contemporary Researcher Award by the Center of Scientific Investigations of Spain (CSIC), and QUO magazine (2017) and the Woman and Technology Award by Orange Foundation (2018).

She has chaired international conferences (IROS 2018, Humanoids 2014, IFAC FDA 2004, SAFC 2007) and has been a member of International Program Committees (Symposium of Fractional Signals and Systems 2017, CLAWAR 2017, IEEE ASME MESA 2007-2011, IEEE ICMA 2007, etc.).

She is currently an Expert Evaluator of the European Commission for the Horizon 2020 Program and National Research Evaluator of the Spanish Ministry of Competitiveness and Industry.