I am a researcher in the area of autonomous robotic systems with a special focus on underwater robotics and tele-operation. I finished my PhD in 2007 in the area of adaptive control of walking robots and continued to do research in robotics and artificial intelligence since then. Currently I am working as a senior researcher and associate professor at the Brasilian Institute of Robotics at SENAI CIMATEC in Bahia and act as liaison to the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen.