Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Masia

Academic Career and Research Areas

Lorenzo Masia is the Executive Director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI). His research focuses on robotics, particularly exosuits and robot-assisted rehabilitation. He is specialized in design of mechatronic devices for rehabilitation and develops control strategies for human-robot interaction. His work also involves mechanism with controllable compliance, addressing challenges in healthcare and human augmentation.

Prof. Masia studied Mechanical Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome and received his PhD from the University of Padua in 2007. After research stays at MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology, he became Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2013) and later joined the University of Twente (2018). From 2019 to 2024, he was Professor at Heidelberg University. Since 2024, he is Professor of "Intelligent BioRobotic Systems" and Executive Director of MIRMI at TUM.

Awards

• Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICORR (2023)
• Best Paper award at IEEE RAS EMBS BIOROB (2022)
• Best presentation award at IEEE RAS EMBS BIOROB (2020)
• Best Student Paper Award at IEEE RAS EMBS BIOROB (2016)
• Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICORR (2015)
• Best Paper Award at IEEE ICORR (2011)