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Rodrigo Serra is a robotics researcher whose work centers on autonomous aerial systems, multi-robot coordination, and robust localization for outdoor robotics. His most impactful contribution, "Vision-Based Autonomous Following of a Moving Platform and Landing for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" (41 citations), addresses a critical limitation of UAVs—battery life—by enabling a drone to autonomously follow and land on a moving ground vehicle, effectively creating a heterogeneous robot team that extends operational range. This work has practical implications for logistics, surveillance, and search-and-rescue missions. Serra further advances localization with his GEERS framework (5 citations), which fuses wheel odometry, IMU, and GNSS with point cloud registration to achieve high-accuracy, consistent-rate positioning for outdoor robots. He also contributed to the euROBIN first-year robotics hackathon (5 citations), demonstrating a complete door-to-door parcel delivery system using a heterogeneous robot team, and has explored how robot contests can accelerate robotics science. With a growing citation record and a focus on real-world deployment, Serra is establishing himself as a promising voice in field robotics and autonomous systems integration.