My name is Jean-Christophe Zufferey. I am research scientist and lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS). In parallel, I recently founded senseFly LLC, an EPFL spinoff company producing autonomous flying robots for sensing applications.

My research interests lie in aerial, bio-inspired robotics. Since 2001, I co-authored more than forty peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and took part in several international conferences. In 2004, I was awarded a best poster award at the conference in Insect Sensors and Robotics, Brisbane, Australia. In March 2005, I received my Ph.D. in Autonomous Robotics from EPFL together with the ABB 2006 award with the mention "EPFL Press" for "a pioneering contribution to the science and technology of autonomous flying microrobots inspired by the biology of flying insects". Since 2006, I have been teaching mobile robotics at the master level.  In 2006, I got the best paper award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Beijing, China. In 2007, I co-organised the first international symposium on Flying Insects and Robots in Monte Verità, Switzerland. In 2008, I released my first book entitled "Bio-inspired Flying Robots" at EPFL Press. In 2009, I co-edited the book on Flying Insects and Robots published by Springer.

In spend a large part of my free time in the air, or not very far from it. In 1993, I got my glider license, which I extended two years later with a single-engine-piston license. Now I practice scenic flights over the Alps, mountain landing and aerobatics with an always renewed enthusiasm. In 2007, I co-founded the aeropoly association to share my passion with EPFL students and collaborators. In 2009, I won the first place at the Swiss Aerobatic Championships with an Extra 200 aircraft in the ADVANCED category.

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