Professor Pauline Pounds is an aerial robotics researcher, engineer, and serial entrepreneur. She completed her undergraduate in systems engineering in 2002 and PhD in robotics at the Australian National University in 2008. She worked in industrial research until 2009 and then completed a post-doc at Yale in 2011 before taking a faculty position at UQ in 2012. She specialises in unmanned aerial vehicle dynamics, propulsion, stability and control, with recent advances in legged locomotion and sensor module technology. She is a 2013 ARC DECRA winner, 2020 TASDCRC Fellow, 2015 Queensland Science Young Tall Poppy winner, 2020 ATSE Batterham Medal winner, and won the 2010 ARAA ACRA Most Cited Paper 1999-2010 award. She has over 4000 citations; five start-up companies; over 30 patents licensed to industry; and an Erdos Number of 5. Her early work produced highly influential papers in quadrotor control and her flight model simulator is the standard quadrotor model in the Matlab Robotics Toolbox. She is President of the Australian Robotics and Automation Association and was previously Senior Editor for RAS IEEE Robotics and Automation-Letters in Aerial and Field Robotics.