SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
Prof. Jadran Lenarčič received B. Sc., M. Sc., and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 1985, he was appointed Head of the Robotics Laboratory and in 1995 Head of the Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics of the J. Stefan Institute. From 2005 to 2020, he was Jožef Stefan Institute’s director, the country’s largest research institute (more than 1100 employees). He is now retired but collaborates with the institute as a scientific advisor. He is also a full professor at the University of Ljubljana. He was visiting scholar at the University of Hull (UK), the University of Ferrara (Italy), the University of Bologna (Italy), and Notre Dame University (USA).
Jadran Lenarčič is the initiator and chairman of well-known elite international symposia Advances in Robot Kinematics. ARK is a series of international symposia, the first was organized in 1988 in Ljubljana (Slovenia), and the last one in Spain in 2022. Prof. Lenarčič was the chair of seventeen ARK symposia. He contributed to more than one hundred other international conferences as a chair or member of the program committee.
Colleagues and friends – Prof. Jadran Lenarčič, Prof. Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli (University of Bologna, Italy) and Prof. Bruno Siciliano (University of Naples Federico II) are gathered in Lenarčič’s office at the Jožef Stefan Institute.
Prof. Lenarčič is a recipient the National Medal of Work with Silver Wreath, the Italian Cavaliere nell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana and the French Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérit.
J. Lenarčič is a Full Member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering and served as President and Vice-President. He is also a Corresponding Member of the Accademia Delle Scienze di Bologna (Italy).
His basic research interests are in robotics, robot kinematics, and humanoid robotics. He was one of the founders of robot kinematics as an independent field of research. His contributions are in the area of modelling and simulation of robots, mathematical evaluation and optimization of robot mechanisms, modelling of human upper extremities and control of redundant robots. He is a co-author and co-editor of several international books on robotics and robot kinematics. Prof. Lenarčič was among the pioneers of Slovenian robotics, his doctorate was the first in this field in Slovenia.
Prof. Lenarčič has served in national and international committees and boards, among others he was appointed Member of the Search Committee for the President of the European Research Council, Member of the Executive committee of EARTO for many years (EARTO is the largest association of European research institutes), Member of the Robotics and Automation Committee of the IFToMM international association.