My work focus on interdisciplinary research applied to the state of the art autonomous intelligent robotics and human-robot interaction. I am particularly interested in Evolutionary Robotics, Swarm Robotics, Biologically-inspired algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Rehabilitation Robotics and Neurorobotics. 

Patricia A. Vargas, PhD, is the Founder Director of the Robotics Laboratory, Director of Ethics and Associate Professor/Reader in Computer Science and Robotics at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot–Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. She is an executive member of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. She is also an IEEE Senior Member and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, plus an exec member of the IEEE Ro-Man Standing Steering Committee. She was a post-doc at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK for 3 years. Her research interests include Evolutionary and Bio-inspired Robotics, Swarm Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Human–Robot Interaction, Rehabilitation Robotics and Neurorobotics.