Gianluca Antonelli was born in Roma (Italy) in 1970. He received the "Laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering and the "Research Doctorate" degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Naples in 1995 and 2000, respectively. From 2000 he is with the University of Cassino where, from 2005, he is Associate Professor. From August 2009 he is Regional Editor for Europe/Africa of the Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics. From 2007 he is Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Conference Editorial Board (CEB). From June, 2008, he is co-chair of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Marine Robotics. From 2005 to 2009 he has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. From 2007 to 2009 he has been Editor for the Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics. He served as indipendent expert for the FP6/FP7 STREP/IP proposals evaluation in 2006, 2009 and 2010. From 2011 he is chair of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Italian Chapter.

"Life is a Gaussian". A friend of mine.

 my Erdos number is 4 (Andreas Birk, Wolfgang J. Paul, several 1 erdos researchers, P. Erdos!)