Prof. Roger GASSERT

Prof. Roger Gassert is a Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering at ETH Zurich. He received an M.Sc. degree in microengineering and a PhD degree in neuroscience robotics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Following postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London, UK, Simon Fraser University, Canada, and ATR International, Japan, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2008. His research is concerned with the development and application of robotics, wearable sensor technologies and non-invasive neuroimaging to assess, explore and restore human sensorimotor function after neurological injury.

Roger Gassert is vice-President of the strategic advisory board of the CYBATHLON, a championship for people with disabilities competing with advanced assistive technologies, and founding member of the International Consortium on Rehabilitation Robotics. He is member of the foundation board of Access for all and the Cereneo Center for interdisciplinary research in tele rehabilitation, and member of the advisory board of the Innovation Centre for Assistive Technology of the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation.