Professor Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena

Biography

Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena is Professor of Medical Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, where he leads the Mechatronics in Medicine Laboratory and the Applied Mechanics Division. He has been the Engineering Co-Director of the Hamlyn Centre, which is part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, since July 2020. He is a founding member and great advocate of the Imperial College Robotics Forum, now the first point of contact for roboticists at Imperial College. His 20-strong team of staff and PhD students has a translational focus, though their work encompasses both “blue skies” research and “near-to-market” development. He was the Chair of the Programme Committee for the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS International) and CAOS UK, and now of the Hamlyn Symposium; He was the founding Chair of the IET’s Communities Committee for Technical Networks (CC TN), a Leverhulme Prize winner (engineering), a former ERC grant holder, and the coordinator of an €8.3M European project on robotic-assisted neurosurgical drug delivery (EDEN2020) and a UKRI THT Programme Grant on Endoluminal robotics (THT ROBOGAST). He has published over 200 papers and secured in excess of £20M in research funding to date.