Leon Žlajpah received the B.Sc. degree in automatics from the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1982. From the same University he received in 1985 the M. Sc. degree and in 1989 the Ph.D. degree in electrical science. In 1981 he started as a researcher at the "Jožef Stefan" Institute in Ljubljana, working in different fields of robotics. Since 1998 he is a Senior Researcher at the "Jožef Stefan" Institute. Between 2005 and 2014 he was the Head of the Department for Automation, Biocybernetics and Robotics at the "Jožef Stefan" Institute. He is also Ass. Prof. in Robotics at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School in Ljubljana.
Basic research interests of Leon Žlajpah include modelling and simulation of robot systems and advanced control systems for robots. His contributions are in the field of control of redundant robots, compliant robot control, sensor systems, applications of robots, and recently control of robots interacting with humans. For his research work in robotics and applications he was awarded several awards. Among them is the National award for research excellence in the field of robotics.
Dr. Žlajpah is member of Slovenian Society for Simulation and Modelling, Automatics Society of Slovenia and IEEE member.