Anibal Ollero is Head of GRVC Robotics Laboratory with 70 members (average in the last 5 years) at the University of Seville and Scientific Director of the Centre for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) also in Seville. He has been a full professor at Schools of Engineers in Vigo and Malaga (Spain), and a researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University(Pittsburgh, USA) and LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse, France).He has an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, has coordinated 7 European projects of the European Framework Programmes and participated, leading a partner team, in 45 projects of these Framework Programmes. He has been recognized with 33 awards, including the Rei Jaume I Award in New Technologies 2019, the Spanish National Research Award in Engineering 2021, the ICUAS Achievement Award «for outstanding achievements and contributions in Unmanned Aviation and Aerial Robotics”, elected among the three European Innovators in 2017 and among the European personalities in 2017, and has been Overall Winner of the ICT Innovation Radar Prize 2017 of the European Commission, First European EU Drone Application Award and Second in the EURON-EUROP Technology Transfer Award, 2010.