Prof. Jadran Lenarčič received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1979, 1981, and in 1986, respectively. He has been appointed by the J. Stefan Institute since 1979 and holds a professorship at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana, since 1988. He served as Head of the Robotics Laboratory of J. Stefan Institute (1985-1995) and Head of the Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics (1995-2005). Since 2005 he is Director of the J. Stefan Institute. Basic research interests of J. Lenarčič are in robotics, robot kinematics, biorobotics and humanoid robotics. His contributions are in the areas of modeling and simulation of robots, mathematical evaluation and optimization of robot mechanisms, modeling of human upper extremity and control of redundant robots. He edited a series of twelve international books on Advances in Robot Kinematics and is co-author of two monograph books "Robot Mechanisms" and "Robotics", all published by Springer. J. Lenarčič is the initiator and chairman of the well-known international symposia Advances in Robot Kinematics; the first was organized in 1988 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the last in 2012 in Innsbruck (Austria). Prof. Lenarčič is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering (President 2011/12) and a Corresponding Member of Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, Italy.