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
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
Barnabas Gavin Cangan
Area: Soft Robotic Systems
Diogo Fonseca
Area: Soft and Biohybrid Robotics (Internship)
CLAG 11.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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 F5
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
Elvis Nava
Area: Machine Learning for Robotics Manipulation
CLA F10.3
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
Current Students
Alessandro Bretecher
Master's Thesis
Vittorio Candiello
Master's Thesis
Elena Casalino
Semester Project
Eglantine Durand
Semester Project
Oliver Ferrari
Master's Thesis
Philippe Gachet
Semester Project
Juliette Grosse
Semester Project
Megan Grossmann
Semester Project
Zeno Hamers
Master's Thesis
Laurent Hoffmann
Master's Thesis
Jonas Holinger
Bachelor's Thesis
Timothée Joguet
Master's Thesis
Hagan Kolanz
Master's Thesis
Klaus Moeri
Bachelor's Thesis
Jens Nielsen
Semester Project
Marco Poggensee
Master's Thesis
Pirijan Pulenthiran
Bachelor's Thesis
Arturo Roberti
Master's Thesis
Linus Rogge
Master's Thesis
Bianca Röschli
Internship
Darian Schmidheiny
Bachelor's Thesis
Henry Schrader
Bachelor's Thesis
Valentin Simonis
Bachelor's Thesis
Nick Truttmann
Semester Project
Shota Urashima
Internship
Melker Wirdheim
Bachelor's Thesis
Severin Weder
Internship
Senlao Yao
Semester Project