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 and Scientific Assistants
Harry Durham
Area: Anthropomorphic robotic arm development (internship)
Andrea Catalano
Area: Design of Wearable Soft Robotics Systems(Internship)
CLA F 2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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 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
Pablo Paniagua
Area: Biohybrid Robotics
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
Boshi An
Master's Thesis
Alessandro Bretecher
Master's Thesis
Dino Lourenco Claro
Semester Project
Laurent Emmenegger
Bachelor's Thesis
Moris Eberle
Bachelor's Thesis
Oliver Ferrari
Master's Thesis
Nicola Fiore
Semester Project
Jaú Gretler
Master's Thesis
Madeleine Gries
Internship
Romain Guntz
Semester Project
Zeno Hamers
Master's Thesis
Diána Hidvégi
Semester Project
Laurent Hoffmann
Master's Thesis
Jonas Holinger
Bachelor's Thesis
Maxim Huber
Internship
Timothée Joguet
Master's Thesis
Cornelius Jonsson
Master's Thesis
Filippos Katsimalis
Semester Project
Liam Maloney
Semester Project
Simone Morandi
Semester Project
Philip Pawlowsky
CSE Seminar
Thao Ly Phan
Semester Project
Alessandro Pietrogiovanna
Semester Project
Marco Poggensee
Master's Thesis
Pirijan Pulenthiran
Bachelor's Thesis
Simon Ramchandani
Semester Project
Ilakkiya Ravindrarajah
Semester Project
Arturo Roberti
Master's Thesis
Linus Rogge
Master's Thesis
Matteo Rubini
Semester Project
Titus Schmidli
Bachelor's Thesis
Amelie Schopper
Internship
Aristotelis Sympetheros
Semester Project
Valentin Simonis
Bachelor's Thesis
Marc Stampanoni
Bachelor's Thesis
Kai Stewart
Semester Project
Pascal Strauch
Master's Thesis
Risako Tanaka
Semester Project
Nick Truttmann
Semester Project
Vikash Jeyathevan
Semester Project
Leonard Wagner
Semester Project
Melker Wirdheim
Bachelor's Thesis
Leo Wise
Semester Project
Nico Züger
Bachelor's Thesis