Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov is a Lecturer in Robotics at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Bioengineering of Imperial College London. Before joining QMUL he was a research associate at Imperial College of London where he was involved in human-robot interaction research in European projects BALANCE, SYMBITRON and COGIMON. He got his PhD with distinctions in Robotics from University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris VI Sorbonne (Paris, France), MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Korea University of Technology and Education (1st grade, Cheonan, South Korea), and BSc with honours in Automation and Control from Moscow State University of Technology STANKIN (Moscow, Russia).