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Prof. Dr. Ardian Jusufi graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where most of his formal training took place. He moved to the University of Cambridge where he was a Queens’ College Postdoctoral Research Associate. Subsequently, Ardian was a research scientist at Harvard University, under the supervision of Prof. Wood of the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering. He was a lecturer at Sydney’s Robotics Institute before founding the Max Planck Research Group for Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems in 2018. Ardian was a Max Planck Research Group Leader [~Associate Professor] at the MPI for Intelligent Systems for five years, before joining the Engineering Sciences Department at the Swiss Federal Labs for Materials Science and Technology while he was also an Affiliated Group Leader at the University of Zurich Institute for NeuroInformatics INI, where he has since joined full time. Ardian has also been an Hon. Associate Professor of Macquarie University Sydney since 2022.

Prof. Dr. Ardian Jusufi | Institute for NeuroInformatics University of Zurich

Head of Soft Kinetic Group, Engineering Sciences Department | Swiss Federal Labs for Materials Science and Technology Empa

formerly Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Intelligent Systems
and Associate Faculty Member at ETH Center for Learning Systems

Hon. Associate Professor | Macquarie University

Soft Kinetic is an inter professional group leveraging expertise in robotics and biomechanics.

Prof. Dr. Ardian Jusufi’s general interests reside in locomotion dynamics and control as it pertains to experimental robotics with soft active materials. Having discovered multiple functions of control appendages, allowing locomotors to overcome obstacles during diverse modes of locomotion, including wall running, assisting them in mid-air righting, and gliding, the focus of Ardian’s research has been on deciphering general control principles of locomotor robustness as it pertains to disturbance rejection, before reverse-engineering them. In this spirit, his pioneering experiments uncovered how tails contribute to stability and maneuverability of locomotion in diverse model systems. These discoveries have in turn inspired the design of robots with novel capabilities of climbing and landing that will ultimately help them navigate complex terrain.

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Please contact: ardian.jusufi@uzh.ch

Moderated Panel Discussion - Soft Robotics and AI - with Profs. Oliver Brock, Koh Hosoda, Rebecca Kraemer-Bottiglia - 12th Intl. Conf. Adaptive Motion Animals & Machines

Speakers of the Soft Robotics Symposium I had honour of chairing at 38th Intl. Conf. PPS38 incl. leaders Robert Shepherd, Yong Lae Park, Cecilia Lasci, ⁦Eduardo Milana⁩, among many others.