Barbara Arbanas Ferreira

Barbara Arbanas Ferreira received her Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb (UNIZG), in February 2022. Her research focused on the decentralized coordination of heterogeneous multi-robot systems, conducted under the co-supervision of Prof. Stjepan Bogdan and Prof. Martínez-de Dios. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) at UNIZG-FER. To date, she has authored or co-authored one book chapter, seven journal articles, and nine conference papers. Her research interests include multi-robot coordination and planning, distributed artificial intelligence, scheduling, and optimization.  She has been involved in several international and national research projects, including the H2020 project subCULTron, FP7 EuRoC, and the Croatian Science Foundation project SPECULARIA. Additionally, she participated in the ERL Emergency Robots 2019 and MBZIRC 2020 Robotics Competitions as a member of the LARICS Team. She is currently working on the Horizon Europe project SeaTecHub and was the Team Leader of UNIZG-FER, which won the MBZIRC 2023 Competition.