Group Members
Our team combines expertise in robotics, mechanical engineering, biology, chemistry, material science, computer science, and machine learning to push the boundaries of soft and biohybrid robotics. Get to know the passionate researchers, engineers, and students driving our projects in musculoskeletal robots, muscle technologies, and autonomous systems.
Head
Prof. Dr. Robert Katzschmann
Assistant Professor of Robotics, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich
Administrative Staff
Federica Poltronieri
Administration of the Laboratory
CLA F1.1
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Senior Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Thomas Buchner
Area: 3D Printing Soft Robots and Electrohydraulic Robots
Dr. Miriam Filippi
Area: Biohybrid Robots
PhD Students and Scientific Assistants
Amirhossein Kazemipour
Area: Electrohydraulic Soft Robot Design and Control
CLA F5
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Jaehoon Kim
Area: Integration of sensors with a soft robotic system
CLA F1.1
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Davide Liconti
Area: Learning-Based Design + Control for Robotic Manipulation
CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Manuel Mekkattu
Area: Soft and Biohybrid Robot Modeling
CLA F7
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Denis Tarasov
Area: Reinforcement Learning
Yasunori Toshimitsu
Area: Design and Control of Soft Robotic Systems
CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Chenyu Yang
Area: Learning Representation for Musculoskeletal Robots
External PhD students
Manuel Antonio Oria Muriel (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Area: Biohbybrid Robotics
CLA G 11.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Shota Oba (Visiting from The University of Tokyo)
Area: Biohbybrid Robotics
CLA G 11.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Scientific Staff
Pablo Paniagua
Area: Biohybrid Robotics
Hagan Kolanz
Area: Electric Muscles for Robots
CLA F 10.3
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Vikash Jeyathevan
RWR class
Henry Schrader
Area: Soft and Biohybrid Robot Modeling
CLA F7
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Yucheng Xia
RWR class
Current Students
Elias Bauer
Bachelor's Thesis
Daniele Berti
Master's Thesis
Paolo Bianca
Master's Thesis
Sarah Bianchi
Semester Project
Alessandro Bretecher
Master's Thesis
Joran Bühler
Bachelor's Thesis
Elena Ciccirillo
Semester Project
Dino Lourenco Claro
Semester Project
Henrik Eberhardt
Semester Project
Laurent Emmenegger
Bachelor's Thesis
Niccolo' Faccenda
Master's Thesis
Riccardo Feingold
Master's Thesis
Nicola Fiore
Semester Project
Maksymilian Firkowski
RWR class
Nicolas Föhn
Bachelor's Thesis
Lucía Østergaard Frank
Semester Project
Jaú Gretler
Master's Thesis
Timm Grigat
Semester Project
Lennert Gröger
Bachelor's Thesis
Romain Guntz
Semester Project
Diána Hidvégi
Semester Project
Jonas Holinger
Bachelor's Thesis
Runpu Liu
Master's Thesis
Ernest Mingret
Semester Project
Simone Morandi
Semester Project
Jonas Oertli
Bachelor's Thesis
Alessandro Petitti
Master's Thesis
Waria Roongaraya
Semester Project
Valentin Simonis
Semester Project
Frederik Soerensen
Master's Thesis
Jan-Micha Sommerfeldt
Semester Project
Lukasz Szeliga
Semester Project
Nick Truttmann
Semester Project
Pietro Venè
Semester Project
Leonard Wagner
Semester Project
Sencan Weston
Bachelor's Thesis
Melker Wirdheim
Bachelor's Thesis
Nico Züger
Bachelor's Thesis