Linda Fiona van der Spaa

I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Decision and Control Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, working with prof. Dimos Dimarogonas.

Before, I worked one year as a researcher in the Delft BioRobotics Lab at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) on the control design of a torque-controlled bicycle simulator with prof. Heike Vallery.

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in 2024 at TU Delft in the department of Cognitive Robotics, with a thesis on: "Learning Human Preferences for Physical Human-Robot Cooperation", supervised by dr. Jens Kober, prof. Robert Babuška, and dr. Michael Gienger at the Honda Research Institute EU in Offenbach (Germany).

My M.Sc. thesis on: "System dynamic design and control of the Plugless Robot Arm: Towards energy neutral robotics" had me awarded Best Graduate in Mechanical Engineering of the year.

My main research interests are in robot learning and control of nonlinear systems for heterogeneous multi-agent physical collaboration.