Angelika Peer is Full Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) since November 2017. From 2014 to 2017 she  was Full Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Before she was senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering and TUM-IAS Junior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She received the Diploma Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2004 and the Doctor of Engineering degree in 2008 from the Technical University of Munich. Her research interests include robotics, control and human system interaction.