Geert De Cubber is the head of the Robotics & Autonomous Systems unit of the department of Mechanics of the Belgian Royal Military Academy. He is also a senior researcher at this institute with a research focus on developing robotic solutions for solving defence and security challenges.

He received his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and his Doctoral Degree in Engineering in 2010 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Belgian Royal Military Academy (RMA).

Geert is and was the coordinator of multiple European and national research projects. Currently, he leads – next to multiple national projects – two European projects: COURAGEOUS on the subject of counter-drone (developing the next international test standard for counter-drone solutions) and ORIGAMI on the subject of counter-counter-drone (developing drone swarms that are resilient to counter-drone measures.

His research interests include methodologies for perceiving and control of multi-agent robotic systems, across the air, land and maritime domain. His major goal is to find new ways to make multiple robotic systems capable of understanding their environment and decide on optimal collaborative strategies. Prominent application examples are crisis management robots, humanitarian demining robots, robots for surveillance applications, and generically robotics for tough environments.