Riener, Robert, Prof.

ETH Zürich Prof. Dr. Robert Riener Inst. f. Robotik u. Intell. Syst. TAN E 4 Tannenstrasse 1 8092 Zuerich 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 ETH Zurich since Mai 2003. In June 2006 he was promoted to the rank of an Associate Professor and in June 2010 to the rank of a Full 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 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 neuroprosthetics. After postdoctoral work at the Centro di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano from 1998 to 1999, he returned to the TU München, where he 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 robots and display methods for motor learning in rehabilitation and sports.

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 journal and 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.