Vincenzo Lippiello is Professor of Automatic Control and Robotics in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at University of Naples Federico II, where he is responsible of the Robotics Lab and the Flying Arena. He is funder and CeO of the spinoff NEABOTICS. He has published more than 140 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. He has participated to several European research projects, including FP7-SHERPA, H2020-HYFLIERS, H2020-AERIAL-CORE as principal investigator, and FP7-AIRobots, FP7-ARCAS, H2020-AEROARMS, H2020-AEROTRAIN as scientific responsible of the local unit. He has been recognized in the 2% worldwide top-scientists in the subfield Industrial Engineering & Automation [Boyack, J. Ioannidis, Data for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", Mendeley Data, V2.]