Roger Gassert
Professor
Department of Health Sciences and Technology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Roger Gassert is associate professor of Rehabilitation Engineering at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich. He received an M.Sc. degree in microengineering and a Ph.D. degree in neuroscience robotics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. During his Ph.D., partially carried out at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, he developed an MRI-compatible robot technology that lead to the first haptic interfaces allowing well-controlled and reproducible interaction with human motion during functional whole-brain neuroimaging. These systems are being used to investigate the neural mechanisms of sensorimotor control and recovery following neurological injury. He subsequently participated in the development and evaluation of pioneering robotic rehabilitation systems to train hand function after stroke as a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Research Interest
Physical human-machine interaction; rehabilitation/medical robotics; Haptics; Assistive technology and the neural control of movement.
