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Dr. Haotian Chen is a Lecturer of Biomedical Engineering in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. He obtained his PhD, focused on stretchable electronic systems, at Peking University in 2018. He subsequently worked as a research scientist at EPFL, Switzerland under Prof. Stephanie Lacour from 2019 to 2022, studying the application of soft electronics in neuroprosthetics. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in July 2023, he was a Junior Professor at CNRS-IEMN, France. His research focuses on the human sensorimotor system. Inspired by physiology and neuroscience, he has developed innovative, soft, and biocompatible electronic devices (sensors and actuators) that interface with the human body to study the interaction processes between humans and their environment quantitatively. The aim is to advance the next generation of rehabilitation equipment, prosthetics, robotic touch, and mixed-reality haptic feedback systems, enabling the natural interconnection between artificial devices and humans.

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Dr. Morteza Amjadi is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Biomedical Engineering in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. He received his Dr Sc. in Mechanical Engineering jointly from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ETH Zurich in 2018. He obtained his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2014, and his B.Sc. in Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2012. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in October 2022, he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom. Dr. Amjadi’s interdisciplinary research interests include wearable sensors, nanoscale materials, nanocomposites, bioinspired designs, soft robotics, and healthcare technologies. He leads the Biomedical Soft Robotics Group at the University of Glasgow where his team aims to design multifunctional soft machines utilizing novel mechanical designs, advanced materials, bioinspired structures, and digital manufacturing processes. Such soft systems have many applications, ranging from wearable medical devices for healthcare monitoring to non-invasive surgical tools and soft robots for safe human–robot interaction.

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Dr. Mustafa Mete is a Research Fellow from Harvard University. He received his PhD in Robotics, Control, and Intelligent Systems from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Jamie Paik. Prior to this, he obtained both an MSc in Electrica Electronics and Control Engineering and a BSc in Electrical Electronics Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University, Turkey. His research interests include soft robotics, intelligent systems, control engineering, and human–machine interaction.