Kristin Y. Pettersen, Professor of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Defence Establishment will be EMRA 2025’s first speaker.

In the period 2013 – 2023, she was Key Scientist at the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (NTNU AMOS).

Fundamental research and innovation

“In this talk, I will present the ERC Advanced Grant Project CRÈME and trace the evolution of articulated marine robots,” she says.

This research began with a fundamental question: How can we learn from nature to enhance robot mobility?

“I will discuss how this inquiry advanced through fundamental research toward technological innovation and development.”

Eelume co-founder

Pettersen has co-founded the subsea robotics company Eelume AS, where she was CEO 2015-2016 and is now a board member.

She was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant 2020 and received the IEEE CSS 2020 Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize.

She is IEEE CSS Distinguished Lecturer, a Fellow of IEEE, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, and a member of the Academy of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Her main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis and control of autonomous robots, with an emphasis on marine robotics and snake robotics.