João Silvério is a senior researcher and group leader at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Munich, where he leads the Interactive Skill Learning group since 2022. He received a PhD in Robotics from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at IIT, and from 2019 to 2022, he held a postdoctoral position at the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny, Switzerland. His research focuses on machine learning for robotics, with particular interest in learning for control, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning.