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. Miriam Filippi
Area: Biohybrid Robots
PhD Students
Thomas Buchner
Area: 3D Printing Soft Robots and Electrohydraulic Robots
Barnabas Gavin Cangan
Area: Soft Robotic Systems
Lewis Jones
Area: Biohybrid Robotics
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
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
CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Hehui Zheng
Area: Machine Learning of Robotic Representations
CLA F5
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
External PhD students
Oliver Neumann
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Jana Egli
Robotic Materials - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Current Students
Boshi An
Semester Project
Elias Andreoli
Bachelor's Thesis
Jasper Baks
Semester Project
Emanuele Bianchi
Master's Thesis
Marco Bruderer
Bachelor's Thesis
Matthias Bürgler
Semester Project
Metthew Fernandez
Semester Project
Patrick Giust
Semester Project
Jonathan Hardan
Semester Project
Jose Pablo Paniagua Hernandez
Semester Project
Jonas Hofer
Bachelor's Thesis
Jonas Holinger
Bachelor's Thesis
Kang Howe Ong
Bachelor's Thesis
Zacharie Jehan
Master's Thesis
Joshua Lasch
Semester Project
Lionel Neukom
Semester Project
Riccardo Orion Feingol
Semester Project
Sabine Palm
Bachelor's Thesis
Julien Poffet
Semester Project
Claudiadele Polinari
Bachelor's Thesis
Andrea Santoro
Master's Thesis
Rahel Schlatter
Semester Project
Luis Sikkema
Bachelor's Thesis
Misato Sonoda
Research Project@ETH (University of Tokyo)
Vishmithan Velnathan
Master's Thesis
Pascal Weber
Master's Thesis
Linus Weckner
Bachelor's Thesis
Paul Leonard Wolff
Master's Thesis
Yifan Zhou
Semester Project
Yuning Zhou
Master's Thesis