Giovanni Indiveri holds a Masters degree in Physics (1995) and a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (1999). He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Genova, where he serves as Director of ISME, the Inter-university center on Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment. He is the author of over 140 papers in Journals and Conference Proceedings on robot modeling, navigation, guidance and control, mostly in the marine domain.