Èric Pairet (Associate Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Girona, Girona, Spain, in 2015, the Erasmus Mundus M.Sc. degree in computer vision and robotics from the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France, University of Girona, and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2017, and the M.Sc. degree in robotics and autonomous systems from The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh, in 2018, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in robotics. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His research is focused on techniques capable of extracting and leveraging motion plan abstractions to efficiently define robotics behavior, particularly for object manipulation and robot navigation applications.