Professor J. M. M. Montiel received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor with the Departamento de Informtica e Ingeniera de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza, where he is in charge of perception and computer vision research grants and courses. His interests include real-time visual SLAM for rigid and nonrigid environments, and the transference of this technology to robotic and nonrobotic application domains.,Prof. Montiel has received several awards including the IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award 2016. Since 2020, he has been coordinating the EU FET EndoMapper grant aimed to bring visual SLAM to medical intracorporeal scenes. He has been awarded several Spanish MEC grants to fund research with the University of Oxford, U.K., and with Imperial College London, U.K.
