Jorge Sofrony received his doctoral degree from the University of Leicester - England, where he specialized in control systems with application to the aviation industry. His research was part of a european initiative, and his designs where tested in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center, DLR. In addition to the work developed in flight control systems, his research interest contemplate parallel robotics and control, path-planning, control of aerospace systems, Fault Tolerant Control and system reliability analysis. In 2011,his work was extended to the field of UAVs through the support of the Fulbright Foundation and sponsored by the University of Minnesota.