Prof. Dr. Roger Gassert

Prof. Dr.  Roger Gassert

Prof. Dr. Roger Gassert

Full Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology

ETH Zürich

Rehabilitation Engineering

GLC G 20.2

Gloriastrasse 37/ 39

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

Professor Gassert’s research interests are in physical human-machine interaction, rehabilitation/medical robotics, haptics, assistive technology and the neural control of movement.

 

Roger Gassert is full 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.

From December 2007 to November 2008, at the Robotic Systems Lab at EPFL, he directed the joint robotics lab between EPFL and the University of Tokyo, Japan. He joined ETH Zurich as assistant professor of Rehabilitation Engineering in 2008, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2019. He is president of the foundation board of the foundation Access for all and member of the advisory board of the Innovation Centre for Assistive Technologies (IAT) of the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation.

Honours

Year Distinction
2013 Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2011 Finalist for the 2011 Annual BCI Research Award (Zimmermann et al.)
2009 Best Presentation Award at ICORR (Lambercy et al.)
2007 Fellowship from the Japan Trust
2006 Best Application Paper Award at IROS 2006 (Dovat et al.)
2006 Prospective researcher fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation
2002 National Instruments Award for "Innovative Diploma Thesis"

Course Catalogue

Autumn Semester 2024

Number Unit
377-0523-00L Medical Technology I