Keynote Speakers
We would like to introduce the keynote speakers that will give an inspirational lecture during the Soft Robotics Winterschool (turned Summerschool) and Symposium!
Adam Stokes
Professor Adam A. Stokes is a Full Professor and Personal Chair in Bioinspired Engineering in The School of Engineering’s Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems at The University of Edinburgh.
He is Director of the Soft Systems Group, an interdisciplinary research laboratory and Co-Lead of The National Robotarium.
He is the Programme Director for MSc Electronics in The School of Engineering.
He holds degrees in engineering, biomedical science, and chemistry.
He is a member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Internationan Conference on Soft Robotics, an elected member of the Executive Committee of the UK-RAS Network, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Before joining the faculty at Edinburgh he was a Fellow in the George M. Whitesides group at Harvard University.
He is an Emeritus Member of The Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland.
Professor Stokes’s research interests include: robotics, physical chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, optics, proteomics, and cell biology.
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Florian Muijres – Experimental Zoology group, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
Julian Langowski – Experimental Zoology group, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
Miguel Bessa – Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Mohammad Mirzaali – Dept. of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Sebastien Callens – Dept. of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Ali Sadeghi – Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Kaspar Jansen – Dept. of Sustainable Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Rob Scharff – Bioinspired Soft Robotics group, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Michaël Wiertlewski – Cognitive Robotics group, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Bas Overvelde – Institute for Complex Molecular Systems and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Saravana Babu - Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Instituttet, SDU Biorobotics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Paul Breedveld – Dept. of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Preeti Sharma – Dept. of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
Cosimo Della Santina, Dept. of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Aimée Sakes – Dept. of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Herman van der Kooij – Dept. of Biomechanical Engineering, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Ali Leylavi Shoushtari – Dept. of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
Guoxin Fang – Dept. of Sustainable Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Jun Wu – Dept. of Sustainable Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Emmanuel van der Poorten, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium
Irene Kuling – Dynamics & Control group, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Benno Hendriks – Dept. of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Gijs van Soest, Thorax Center, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
Joppe van Dijk, Dental Robotics, The Netherlands
Julian Jagtenberg, Somnox, The Netherlands
Jules Scheltes, DEAM, The Netherlands
Diana Skopina, Materialise, Belgium
Marta Scali, Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center, The Netherlands
Jan Koudijzer, Festo BV, The Netherlands