Silvia Tapia is an electromechanical engineer (UPB) and completed a master’s degree in Research in Robotics at École Centrale de Nantes in France, thanks to a scholarship from the French government. She earned a doctorate in robotics from UPMC in Paris, in co-supervision with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, funded by a European underwater robotics project. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in biomedical engineering at the Institute for Medical Science and Technology in Dundee, Scotland, where she participated in a water colonoscopy project. She is currently a faculty researcher at UPB, where she also leads the Industrial Technology and Robotics Research Laboratory (LITIR).