Herbert Shea is a full professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He studied physics at McGill University (B.Sc. 1991) and then at Harvard University (Ph.D. 1997). After 2 years as a post-doc at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, he joined what was then Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs where he became the technical manager of the Microsystems Technology group. In 2004 Herb joined the EPFL in Switzerland where he leads the Soft Transducers Lab (EPFL-LMTS). His research is centered on elastomer-based actuators for wearable haptics and smart soft robotics. Herb has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is currently the president of the EuroEAP society.
Title: “Electrically-Driven Elastomer-Based Actuators for Wearable Haptics and Soft Robotics”