Linda Fiona Van Der Spaa

I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Division 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.