Riener, Robert, Prof.

ETH Zürich Prof. Dr. Robert Riener Inst.f. Robotik u. Intelligente Systeme TAN E 4 Tannenstrasse 1 8092 Zürich Phone: +41 44 632 66 79 Fax: +41 44 632 18 76 E-Mail:

Curriculum Vitae

Robert Riener has been Assistant Professor for Rehabilitation Engineering at the Automatic Control Laboratory of ETH Zurich since Mai 2003. Since June 2006 he is Associate Professor for Sensory-Motor Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering. As he holds a Double-Professorship with the University of Zurich, he is also active in the Spinal Cord Injury Centre of the Balgrist University Hospital (Medical Faculty).

Robert Riener was born in Munich, 1968. He studied mechanical engineering at TU München and University of Maryland, USA, from 1988 till 1993. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree and the Dr. degree from the TU München in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1993 he joined the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, where he has pursued research into modelling and control of neuroprostheses. After postdoctoral work at the Centro di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano from 1998 to 1999, he returned to the TU München, where he coordinated several research projects and finished his Habilitation in the field of Biomechatronics about multi-modal VR applied to medicine in January 2003. Since his employment in Zurich Riener develops rehabilitation robots supporting gait and arm therapies.

His current research interests involve human motion analysis and synthesis, neuroprosthetics, biomechanics, haptic display technologies, and rehabilitation robotics. He authored and co-authored more than 200 journal and conference articles and 13 patents. He is a member of IEEE/EMBS, a speaker of the AUTOMED, a founding member of IFESS and an associate editor of several research magazines. He was awarded with several prizes including the ISPO Academic Challenge Award 2003, the humanTech Innovation Prize 2005, and the Swiss Technology Award 2006.