Yingdan Wu receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Stuttgart – Dr. Yingdan Wu is an expert in soft matter mechanics as well as the design and fabrication of soft robots for biomedical applications. Wu obtained his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States in August 2020. On January 11, 2021, Wu joined the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart with the support of the Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship. Since September 2021, Wu has been supported by a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers.

"I am really excited to work with Prof. Metin Sitti who is a world-famous scholar leading the development of soft robotics and pioneering the application of soft robots in biomedicine," says Wu. Sitti heads the Physical Intelligence Department, which he founded in 2014 at the Stuttgart site of the MPI-IS.

"Yingdan is a top researcher from the Georgia Institute of Technology to join our small-scale wireless medical robot team and I am sure that his expertise in soft matter contact will contribute to many high-impact research outcomes on novel wireless medical robots during his stay," says Sitti.

Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants approximately 500 fellowships to postdoctoral researchers of all nationalities and disciplines from abroad. They must have above-average qualifications, be at the beginning of their academic career, and have only completed their doctorate in the past four years. A Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers allows the awardee to carry out long-term research of six months to two years in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their academic host.

Find out more about the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship here.