Juanma Parrilla-Gutierrez
Lecturer
Department of EngineeringJuan Manuel is a Lecturer in Robotics in the Department of Engineering. He joined Glasgow Caledonian University in February 2022. Before this, he obtained a Computing Engineering degree (Meng) in Spain (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), an MSc in Robotics Engineering in Denmark (University of Southern Denmark), and a PhD in Robotics and Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
After his PhD, he continued as a research associate at the University of Glasgow, and later on, he obtained a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellowship.
His research aims to study how the Origin of Life happened on planet Earth four billion years ago, and what we can learn from this process to design today's bio-inspired robotics. To achieve this, he works at the interface between artificial intelligence, computer vision, and 3D printing to build autonomous robots that can conduct this line of research.
More recently, he has focused on using generative artificial intelligence to simulate in-silico some of these processes, and also to discover new manufacturing techniques.