Professor Guillaume Morel

Guillaume Morel is a Professor in Robotics at Sorbonne University, where he heads ISIR (Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique), the largest French academic robotics lab, since 2019.

Before holding this position, he has created and lead the first French accredited curriculum of Engineers in Robotics (2008), the first medical robotics research team within the National Health Research Institute (INSERM, 2014) and a Transfer Research Institute grouping 800 researchers and benefiting from the “Carnot” label (2016). As a specialist of sensor-based control of robots and its applications to surgical and assistive robotics, he has adopted over years a translational research approach through numerous projects involving medical experts, engineering researchers and industrialists (e.g. GE Healthcare, Haption, Endocontrol, Koelis, GEMA life, MastOR, MaunaKea Technology, SpineGuard).