Vitoria-Gasteizko Ingeniaritza Eskola

Javier Fernandez Aguirrebeña (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain)

Industrial Engineer and Title of Research Sufficiency (Diploma of Advanced Studies DEA) from the University of the Basque Country. Currently his teaching activity as part-time Associate Professor focuses on the area of Quality Management teaching in all editions of the Master in Industrial Organization Engineering (MIOI) since its inception in Sep/2015 with the subject Quality applied to business management. For 13 years, he has also taught in the last course of the higher cycle of Industrial Organization Engineering, tutoring more than 40 Final Degree Projects. He also continues to teach Production Simulation laboratory practices to all undergraduate students at the Vitoria School of Engineering as part of the Production Organization course. In his professional activity, he has been part of the aeronautical group Aernnova since 1996, having performed different functions mainly oriented to the direct relationship with international customers.

Dr. LUCA GUALTIERI (Postdoc at Smart Mini Factory lab, Free University of Bolzano, Italy)

Luca Gualtieri holds a Ph.D. in industrial collaborative robotics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and is a certified Occupational Health and Safety Manager and Trainer specialized on safety of machinery. He is working in the Smart Mini Factory lab as research fellow for the Industrial Engineering and Automation (IEA) group of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He is responsible for research in the field of industrial collaborative robotics. In particular, he is focusing on human–robot interaction from the point of view of the operator’s occupational health and safety, ergonomics, and shared workplace organization. He participated in many European-funded project calls as well as collaborating with private companies in industrial projects.