Prof. Javier Alonso-Mora is the director of the TU Delft Robotics Institute and a Full 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, Prof. 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 was a local co-organizer of RSS 2024. He was a Principal Investigator at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) and his research on ride‑pooling has led to the creation of a commercial spin‑off company, The Routing Company.

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. Key application areas include mobile manipulation, autonomous vehicles, aerial drones, surface vessels and on‑demand mobility. His awards include an NWO VENI Talent Scheme Award (2017), the ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi‑Robot Systems (2019), an ERC Starting Grant (2021), the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award (2024), and the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award (2025).