Maria Makarov was born in Tomsk, Russia. She received the engineering degree in electrical Engineering from the École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control jointly from Supélec and the Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, in 2013. Since 2013, she has been with the Automatic Control Department, CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include predictive and robust control for uncertain systems, with applications in robotic manipulation.