People

Staff

Guido de Croon
Full Professor
https://www.tudelft.nl/staff/g.c.h.e.decroon
Salua Hamaza
Associate Professor
https://www.tudelft.nl/staff/s.hamaza
Christophe De Wagter
Assistant Professor
Bart Remes
Project Manager
Ewoud Smeur
Assistant Professor
Marija Popovic
Assistant Professor
Freek van Tienen
Engineer
Erik van der Horst
Technical staff - RPAS Manager
Taran Jaswant Singh
RPAS Flight Operations Manager / Engineer

Postdocs

Fernando Ruiz Vincueria
Soft Robotics for Space Applications
Dimitris Chaikalis
Soft Aerial Manipulation
Matthew Yedutenko
Bio-inspired Vision for Drones
Elijah Ang
Self-learning Drones with Artificially Evolved Bodies

PhD Candidates

Diana Olejnik
Diana Olejnik
Bio-inspired flapping wing MAVs
Sunyou Hwang
Learning how to autonomously exploit updrafts
Jesse Hagenaars
Neuromorphic Learning
Sunyi Wang
Embodied intelligence for flapping wing MAVs
Yilun Wu
Neuromorphic Vision
Hang Yu
Collision Avoidance
Liming Zheng
Bioinspired Perching Drones
Anton Bredenbeck
Tactile-driven Control for Aerial Robots
Robin Ferede
Time Optimal Control for Quadcopters
Chaoxiang Ye
Bioinspired Drones with Whiskers
Tomaso de Ponti
Fault-Tolerant Control of UAVs
Jane Ramirez
Bioinspired Drones with Multimodal Locomotion
Till Blaha
Self-learning Flight Control of UAVs
Evangelos Ntouros
Autonomous Aerobatics with Hybrid Drones
Martijn Brummelhuis
Aerial Tactile Manipulation
Shenqi Wang
Self-learning Navigation of Evolved Drones
Dequan Ou
Neuromorphic and Insect-Inspired Navigation
Moji Shi
Learning-based Planning for UAVs

Guest Researchers

Chenyao Wang
Bio-inspired Visual Sensorimotor Flight Control

Collaborating Researchers

Alumni

NameGraduation YearLink to PhD thesis
Stein Stroobants2025Link to thesis
Sven Pfeiffer2024Link to thesis
Tom van Dijk2024Link to thesis
Federico Paredes-Vallés2023Link to thesis
Yingfu Xu2023Link to thesis
Shushuai Li2021Link to thesis
Borrdephong Rattanagraikanakorn2021Link to thesis
Mario Coppola2021Link to thesis
Shuo Li2020Link to thesis
Kimberly N. McGuire2019Link to thesis
Kirk Y. W. Scheper2019Link to thesis
Ewoud J. J. Smeur2018Link to thesis
Sophie F. Armanini2018Link to thesis
Sjoerd Tijmons2017Link to thesis
Tommaso Mannucci2017Link to thesis
HannWoei Ho2017Link to thesis
Yazdi I. Jenie2017Link to thesis
Joao V. Aguiar Vieira Caetano2016Link to thesis
Shuanghou Deng2016Link to thesis