Leveraging insights and practices from solid mechanics, microfabrication, and bio-inspired robotics, his research objective is to engineer machines and electronics that are composed entirely of condensed soft matter. Prof. Majidi is particularly interested in approaches that are practical from a rapid prototyping and robotics implementation perspective. This includes efforts to enable robust mechanical and electrical interfacing between soft-matter systems and conventional microelectronics. Prior to arriving at CMU, he did postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Princeton Universities. Prof. Majidi received his doctoral training at UC Berkeley, where he examined natural gecko adhesion and developed a gecko-inspired shear-activated adhesive. He is the recent recipient of Young Investigator awards from DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, and NASA.