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Virginia Ruiz Garate is a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and a researcher with expertise in Robotics control and assistive technologies. Her current research areas include grasping manipulation, bio-inspired control, and human-robot collaboration. She has an extensive background in adaptive controllers for assistive robots and has contributed significantly to the field of rehabilitation robotics. Prior to her position at UWE, she held an Associate Professor role in Assistive Robotics at Mondragon University. Virginia has also worked for four years as a PostDoctoral researcher at the Physical Interaction Laboratory of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where she focused on the EU project SOMA, exploring bio-inspired grasping stiffness controls for robotic hands. Her PhD was obtained from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, where she researched control systems for lower limb exoskeletons using bio-inspired artificial motor primitives. Virginia has actively contributed to the academic community by reviewing for IEEE journals, co-organizing workshops, and engaging in numerous research collaborations.
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