Rauter, Georg, Prof. Dr.

Georg Rauter was born 1980 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg (Austria). He studied mechatronics in mechanical engineering from 2000 at Graz University of Technology (Austria) and from 2004 mathematical and mechanical modelling at the engineering school MATMECA, University Bordeaux 1 (France). During his first diploma thesis he was involved in the development of a prototype for diagnosis in spine pathologies at the enterprise AXS Ingenierie (Merignac, France). He received his French engineering diploma in 2006.

In 2007 he joined the SMS Lab of Prof. Robert Riener for his second diploma thesis in the field of control and mechanics in tendon-based robots. In 2008 he received his Austrian diploma degree. From March 2008 till October 2013, he continued his work at the SMS Lab as a PhD student. His PhD thesis focused on automated robot-assisted human motor learning.

Since 2013, Georg Rauter is employed as a postdoc for research in robot-assisted rehabilitation and motor learning at the University Hospital Balgrist, University of Zurich together with the SMS-Lab, ETH Zurich. In particular Georg Rauter works on the upper extremity rehabilitation robot “ARMin”. Furthermore, in 2013, he worked at University of Southern California (USC), USA with Professors David Z. D’Argenio and Francisco Valero-Cuevas for half a year. At USC, Georg Rauter developed statistical hierarchical models for analysis of a clinical multicenter study with the rehabilitation robot ARMin. Since April 2015, Georg Rauter is also project manager and scientific advisor for a CTI project between the Spinal Cord Injury Center at University Hospital Balgrist, University of Zurich and the enterprise Lutz Medical Engineering (Rüdlingen, Switzerland). This CTI project aims the improvement of robot-assisted gait training with body weight support through the rehabilitation robot “the FLOAT”.