Mats Isaksson

Dr Mats Isaksson is a roboticist focused on industrial robotics. After his  MSc at Lund University, Sweden, he worked for ten years in the Motion Control department at ABB Robotics in Sweden. After relocating to Australia, he completed a PhD in robotics at Deakin University in 2013. Since then, he has worked for three years at the Centre For Intelligent Systems Research at Deakin University and one year at Colorado State University before starting at Swinburne in 2016. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering. He is the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab which he founded in 2021, and the leader of the Intelligent Robotics Program under the Manufacturing Futures Platform. He is also the Swinburne leader in the Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ITTC) for Collaborative Robotics in Advanced Manufacturing (also known as the Australian Cobotics Centre). 

Education:

Ph.D. in Robotics, Deakin University, 2013
M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, Lund University, Sweden, 1997

Career:

• January 2025 – Present: Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorne, Melbourne, Australia

• January 2022 – December 2024: Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorne, Melbourne, Australia
• February 2019 – December 2021: Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorne, Melbourne, Australia
• July 2016 – January 2019: Senior Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorne, Melbourne, Australia
• January 2016 – July 2016: Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.
• July 2012 – July 2015: Research Fellow, Centre for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
• January 2009 – June 2012: Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
• January 2003 – January 2014, Website Development for Citocraft AB
• September 1997 – November 2007: Research Engineer, Department of Motion Control, ABB Robotics, Västerås, Sweden.


Links

Linkedin profile: linkedin.com/in/mats-isaksson-4099871
Google Scholar: scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Zrmzv58AAAAJ&hl=en