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Introduction to the school
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   *10:00 - 10:30* -- Carlos Hernandez

**Summary:**
This session opens the summer school by introducing the hosting institutions and the organizing team.
It then gives an outlook of the school, including the schedule, the topics covered, and how it is all related.

**Session materials:**
 - :download:`Slides: Introduction to the school <slides/20260629_SSER_school_Intro.pdf>`

**Bio. Carlos Hernandez Corbato** is Associate Professor at the Cognitive Robotics Department in the Faculty Mechanical Engineering of TU Delft, The Netherlands.
He participates in the EU projects CoreSense, METATOOL, and REMARO, has served as scientific coordinator in other EU projects, and won with Team Delft the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2016.
His research interests include software architectures for robotics, knowledge representation and reasoning, model-based systems engineering, and self-adaptive systems, and teaches about these topics in the MSc Robotics Program.
Carlos holds MSc degrees in engineering (2006) and automation and robotics (2008), and a Ph.D (2013) from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.