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 J25
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Senior Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Ronan Hinchet
Area: Electrohydraulic Actuators and Robotic Systems
CLA H23.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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 F5
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

Marco Bruderer
Bachelor's Thesis

Jose Pablo Paniagua Hernandez
Semester Project

Yundi Lu
Master's Thesis

Robert Jomar Malate
Semester Project

Claudiadele Polinari
Bachelor's Thesis

Andrea Santoro
Master's Thesis

Linus Weckner
Bachelor's Thesis

Paul Leonard Wolff
Master's Thesis

Yifan Zhou
Semester Project

Yuning Zhou
Semester Project