Associate Professor
University of Padua, Italy
Pietro Falco received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering in 2012 and subsequently held a Postdoctoral position at the Second University of Naples until February 2015. From December 2010 to July 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), under the supervision of Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann. In 2011, he co-founded Aeromechs S.r.l., a company still active in the field of intelligent energy management systems for aeronautics. In 2015 he moved to Munich where he received a TUM Foundation Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich and later a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for Experienced Resaerchers. In 2018, Pietro joined ABB Corporate Research in Västerås, Sweden, as a Senior Scientist and Project Manager, where he led diverse internal and European research projects. In 2024, Pietro returned to Italy at the University of Padua, where he currently serves as an Associate Professor.
Pietro Falco’s research interests span machine learning for robotics, human manipulation observation, robotic mobile manipulation, and large language models for robotics.