Riener, Robert, Prof. Dr.

Robert Riener studied mechanical engineering at TU Munich and University of Maryland, USA, from 1988 - 1993. He received the Dipl.-Ing. and a doctoral degree from the TU Munich in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1993 he joined the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, where he has pursued research into neuroprosthetics. After postdoctoral work at the Centro di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano from 1998 to 1999, he returned to the TU Munich, where he finished his habilitation in the field of Biomechatronics specifically in the area of multi-modal VR applied to medicine in January 2003. Robert Riener became an Assistant Professor for Rehabilitation Engineering at ETH Zurich in May 2003. He was promoted to Associate Professor and then full Professor for Sensory-Motor Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering in 2006 and 2010, respectively. As he holds a Double-Professorship with the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, he is also a research group leader at the Spinal Cord Injury Center at Balgrist University Hospital (Medical Faculty). Since his employment in Zurich, Robert has been developing robots and display methods for motor learning in rehabilitation and sport. His current research interests involve human motion synthesis, biomechanics, virtual reality, man-machine interaction, and rehabilitation robotics. He authored and co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, conference articles, and 20 patents. He is a member of several scientific societies (e.g., IEEE/EMBS, DGBMT/VDE, IFESS) and an associate editor of several scientific magazines. For his development of the arm therapy robot ARMin, he was awarded with several prizes including the humanTech Innovation Prize, the Swiss Technology Award, and an award of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation Berlin. (Sensory-Motor Systems Lab)

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