Francesco StellacciFrancesco Stellacci graduated in Materials Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1998 with a thesis on photochromic polymers with Prof. Giuseppe Zerbi and Mariacarla Gallazzi. In 1999 he moved to the Chemistry Department of the University of Arizona for as a post-doc in the group of Joe Perry in close collaboration with the group of Seth Marder. In 2002 he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He was then promoted to associate without (2006) and with tenure (2009). In 2010 he moved to the Institute of Materials at EPFL as a full Professor. He holds the Alcan EP Chair. Francesco was one of the recipients of the Technology Review TR35 "35 Innovator under 35" award in 2005, and the Popular Science Magazine "Brilliant 10" award in 2007. He has been a Packard Fellow starting 2005.
Esther AmstadEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Reece Carolann Whatmore, Marc Elies Grädel, François Raphaël Rivat, Rocio Garcia Montero, Robin Michel Studer, Brian David Ridenour, Harsha Koganti, Zoubeir Saraw, Louisa Rinaldi, Greta Cocchi, Gaia Dupont A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Antoine Claude Jean Vian, Huachuan Du, Gianluca Etienne, Mathias Steinacher, Efe Armagan, Alvaro Lino Boris Charlet, Michael David Kessler, Aysu Ceren Okur, Matteo Hirsch, Chuen-Ru Li, Pauline Camille Charlotte Pradal, Gaia De Angel
Stéphanie LacourStéphanie P. Lacour holds the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology in the School of Engineering at EPFL and leads the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from INSA de Lyon, France, and completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge. She is the recipient of the 2006 MIT TR35, a University Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, European Research Council ERC Starting and POC Grants, and a SNSF-ERC Consolidator Grant. She was elected a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Silvestro MiceraEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Johannes Sebastiaan Nieuwenhuis, Mouhamed Zorkot, Angela Braccia, Jonathan Muheim, Xiangyu Xu A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Elvira Pirondini, Andrea Crema, Marco Bonizzato, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Edoardo D'Anna, Emanuele Formento, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Flavio Raschella, Nawal Kinany, Théo Lemaire, Marion Aimée Geneviève Badi-Dubois, Tristan Jean Robin Barjavel, Vincent Alexandre Mendez, Outman Akouissi, Giulia Dominijanni, Simone Romeni, Franklin Leong, Ele
Grégoire CourtineEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Alejandro Rodriguez Guajardo, Marc Khoury, Emma Farina, Icare Sakr, Camille Marie Mélodie Frayssinhes, Philippe José Emile René Forero, Ruijia Wang, Luca Robert Liebi, Achilleas Laskaratos, Chen Chen, Mark Adam Hinkle, Paula Sanchez Lopez, Martin Picek, Vi Anh Nguyen, Lou Colette Kohler Voinov, Jules Luo-Han Julien Orsat A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Nikolaus Wenger, Janine Beauparlant, Lucia Florinda Friedli Wittler, Léonie Asboth, Mark Andrew Anderson, Galyna Pi
Jamie PaikProf. Jamie Paik is founder and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and a core member of Swiss NCCR robotics group. The RRL leverages expertise in multi-material fabrication and smart material actuation for novel robot designs. She received her PhD in Seoul National University on designing humanoid arm and a hand while being sponsored by Samsung Electronics. This 7-DoF humanoid arm was the lightest in the literature at that time being 3.7kg including the 8-DoF hand. During her Postdoctoral positions in the Institut des Systems Intelligents et de Robotic in Universitat Pierre Marie Curie, Paris VI, she developed laparoscopic tools named JAiMY that are internationally patented and commercialized now by Endocontrol-medical.com. At Harvard University’s Microrobotics Laboratory, she started developing unconventional robots that push the physical limits of material and mechanisms. Her latest research effort is in soft robotics including self-morphing Robogami (robotic origami) that transforms its planar shape to 2D or 3D by folding in predefined patterns and sequences, just like the paper art, origami.
