Carme Torras

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Carme Torras is a novelist and research professor at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (Institute of robotics and industrial computing), a joint research centre of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). She graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Universitat de Barcelona and the University of Massachusetts, respectively, and holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She is IEEE Fellow, EurAI Fellow, member of the European Academia and member of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts from Barcelona. She combines her role leading a research group in assistant robotics at the CSIC-UPC with her work as a fiction writer and promoter of ethics in the application of new technologies. She authored several books and articles, as well as science-fiction novels related to robotics and artificial intelligence.