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Johana Florez-Lozano is a pioneering researcher whose work spans humanitarian demining, multi-agent robotics, and construction automation. Her primary research areas include cooperative multi-agent perception systems, sensor technologies for landmine detection, and robotic applications in construction. Her most impactful contribution is the development of a distributed decision-making framework for multi-agent systems used in improvised explosive device (IED) detection, where five sensor-equipped agents operate independently yet collaboratively to classify buried threats—a work cited 28 times. She also authored a comprehensive review of sensors for humanitarian demining robotics (12 citations), evaluating technologies for robotic platforms. Earlier in her career, Florez-Lozano contributed to construction robotics, including a robotized system for spraying Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC) panels and automatic path planning for spraying cells, with papers from the 1990s still cited today. Her work on video stabilization for snake robots (9 citations) further demonstrates her versatility. With a career spanning over three decades, Florez-Lozano’s research has advanced both life-saving demining technologies and industrial automation, making her a notable figure in applied robotics.