Raphael Zufferey

Honors + Awards

2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship
2020 Best PhD in Robotics UK,
2019 Best Paper Award, AMAM conference, Lausanne Switzerland (Only award out of 82)
2018 Best Conference Paper Nominee, ICRA conference, Brisbane

Professional Service

2025 Workshop lead organizer for International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems
2025 Associate Editor for Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
2025 Special Issue Editor for Frontiers in Robotics and AI
2025 Special Issue Editor for Wiley
2024 Associate Editor for International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems
2023 Associate Editor for BioRob IEEE conference
2022 Editor for MDPI Drones in the Wild special issue

Teaching

Design and Manufacturing I (2.007)

Publications

See google scholar.

Selected publications:

2022 Between sea and sky: Aerial Aquatic locomotion in Miniature Robots, Springer, R. Zufferey, R. Siddall, S. F. Armanini, M. Kovac

2022 How ornithopters can perch autonomously on a branch, Nature Communications, R. Zufferey, J. Barbero, D. Feliu-Talegón, S. Rafee Nekoo, JA. Acosta, A. Ollero

2019 Multiple Consecutive Jet-gliding Flights with Water-reactive Fuel, Science Robotics, R. Zufferey, A. Ortega Ancel, A. Farinha, [...] and M. Kovac

2019 SailMAV: design and implementation of a novel multi-modal flying sailing robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), R. Zufferey, A. Ortega Ancel,  [...], M. Kovac