Dr. Maximo A. Roa works since 2010 as Group Leader on Robotic Planning and Manipulation in the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at DLR – German Aerospace Center. In 2015 he also joined Roboception, a DLR spin-off working on 3D perception solutions for robotics, as a Senior Expert on Grasping and Manipulation. Dr. Roa obtained his PhD in Robotics in 2009 at the Polytechnical University of Catalunya, and is a certified PMP. He worked previously for Hewlett Packard R&D as a Research Specialist. He currently serves as co-chair of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Mobile Manipulation.