Author: poma@mmmi.sdu.dk

Giving a talk A Doctoral Candidate of our consortium, Júlio Santos (UNIVIE), participated in three conferences this year. Figure 1 Júlio Santos presenting his research results at CPBCI 2025 in…

Following the successful initial Doctoral Colloquium at the first MAESTRI Conference, a second edition was held online on the 17th of October 2025, continuing this series within our doctoral training…

MAESTRI is dedicated to training a new generation of experts in soft robotics, with a particular focus on harnessing the unique properties of magnetoactive elastomers controlled by magnetic fields. A…

On September 4-5, 2025, the first in a series of international conferences “Magnetic Soft Matter for Robotics” took place at the premises of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (FMF),…

From July 7th to 11th, 2025, three MAESTRI doctoral candidates—Troy Baker (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa), Gian Paolo Currà (Prensilia s.r.l.), and Danica Tan (Wegard GmbH)—met in Pontedera, Italy, for…

Whether young or old, prospective students or the curious - everyone was welcome to the Open University Day of OTH Regensburg on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, from 01:00 pm until 06:00…

On Saturday, March 29th, Lucija Drempetić from the Materials Synthesis Department at the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) in Ljubljana participated in the 33rd Jožef Stefan Days. During the event, she…

The first training school of the Doctoral Network MAESTRI took place at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) from March 3rd to 7th, 2025. This event marked the official kickoff of the…

He began his PhD research fellowship at the ENS Lab of the SDU Biorobotics section, on January 15, 2025. He is developing magnetoactive robots designed to replicate bio-inspired manipulation and…

Professors Mikhail Chamonine (OTH Regensburg) and Stanislav Gorb (CAU Kiel) presented overview talks and introduced the MAESTRI project at the 1st International Symposium on Physical Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (IS-PAIR…

The Doctoral Training School 2 (DTS2) is scheduled for September 8th ‐ 12th, 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

MAESTRI 2025 Annual Meeting will be held in hybrid form on September 4th and 5th in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Troy Baker is a doctoral candidate with the MSCA Maestri doctoral network, starting his PhD in BioRobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna this October.  Troy has a background in soft robotic…

Since Lucija Drempetić joined the Materials Synthesis Department at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on September 1, 2024, she has been involved in the preparation of various samples…

We are pleased to announce that on October 1st, 2024, Arne Geldof (Fig. 1) joined the “Light & Matter” research group at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of…

Two partner organizations of our consortium (UMBC and OTH Regensburg) participated in ASME's Premier Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS 2024) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Prof.…

Researchers aim to develop new supermaterial for robots By Sebastian Wittrock, sewitt@tek.sdu.dk, 4/24/2024 In a new European doctoral network, researchers from the University of Southern Denmark are working to develop…

MAESTRI - Magnetic soft matter for robotics Project: MAESTRI Title: Magnetic soft matter for robotics Period: 1. 3. 2024 - 29. 2. 2028 Leading organization: Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Germany…

Kick-off workshop 1 of the Supervisory Board was organized on the 4th of March 2024 in Regensburg. The wrokshop include several lectures and discussions on the following topics: Personal Career…

Good Luck, MAESTRI! The Supervisory Board of the Doctoral Network (DN) MAESTRI had its Kick-off Meeting on the 4th of March 2024 in Regensburg. It was hosted by the Network…