Mike Domenik Rinderknecht

Mike Domenik Rinderknecht obtained his Ph.D. at the Rehabilitation Engineering Lab (RELab) at ETH Zurich in the department of Health Sciences and Technologies in March 2018. During his Ph.D. he investigated robotic assessment and therapy of somatosensory hand function after stroke.

He was born in 1988 in Zurich, Switzerland, and received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microengineering in 2010 and 2012, respectively, both from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). During his studies he focused mainly on robotics and autonomous systems. Furthermore he obtained a minor in Biomedical Technologies. In his master thesis at the RELab at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques (LSRO) at EPFL he developed a complete system combining tendon vibration and virtual reality for a novel post-stroke neurorehabilitation strategy, for which he was awarded the Logitech Prize 2012. With the first publication related to this project he won the 1st Prize of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2012. As a visiting research student at the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Laboratory (CHARM Lab) at Stanford University he investigated during 6 months learning and transfer in isometric and dynamic reaching for stroke rehabilitation.

His research interests are very broad and range from rehabilitation and medical robotics, assistive devices and prosthetics, virtual reality and haptics to sensory-motor learning and neuroscience.