Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced the appointment of Dr. Barbara Mazzolai as the new Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the bimonthly journal Soft Robotics. Dr. Mazzolai joins Dr. Barry Trimmer as part of the executive editorial team for the journal.
Soft Robotics is the leading robotics journal devoted to the emerging technologies and developments of soft and deformable robots. The journal’s coverage includes flexible electronics, materials science, computer science, and biomechanics. The journal breaks new ground as the first to answer the urgent need for research on robotic technology that can safely interact with living systems and function in complex natural or human-built environments.
Dr. Mazzolai is the Associate Director for Robotics and the Director of the Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa. Additionally, she holds the position of Contract Professor in Soft Robotics at the Politecnico of Milan. She is actively engaged in various international boards, including the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Administrative Committee (AdCom), the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tübingen and Stuttgart, Germany), the Max Planck Queensland Centre (MPQC) for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices, and the Advisory Committee of the Cluster on Living Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems - livMatS (Freiburg, Germany). Dr. Mazzolai, a biologist and bioengineer, directs her research efforts towards mimicking plants and soft animals. She integrates principles from nature with artificial methodologies to drive technological innovation and deepen scientific understanding.
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