Dr. Javier Alonso-Mora is an Associate Professor at the Cognitive Robotics department of the Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Autonomous Multi-robots Laboratory. Prior to joining TU Delft, Dr. Alonso-Mora was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his Ph.D. degree in robotics from ETH Zurich, where he worked in the Autonomous Systems Lab and in partnership with Disney Research Zurich. Dr. Alonso-Mora holds a Diploma in Engineering and a Diploma in Mathematics from the Technical University of Barcelona (UPC), where he was part of the Interdisciplinary Higher Education Centre (CFIS) and the Robotics Institute (IRI).

Prof. Alonso-Mora currently serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Springer Autonomous Robots, and several conferences. He co-chairs the IEEE RAS TC on Multi-Robot Systems and is a local co-organizer of RSS 2024. He is a co-founder of The Routing Company, and was a Principal Investigator at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute).

His main research interests are in navigation, motion planning, learning and control of autonomous mobile robots, and teams thereof, that interact with other robots and humans in dynamic and uncertain environments. He is the recipient of multiple prizes and grants, including a Best Paper Award Finalist at IEEE MRS (2023), an ERC Starting Grant (2021), the ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-robot Systems (2019), an Amazon Research Award (2019) and a talent scheme VENI award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2017).