Prior to joining the CU Boulder faculty in 2015, he was a postdoc at Harvard University and he earned his doctoral degree in physics from the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. Based on his background in soft matter physics, mechanics and chemistry, he now leads an interdisciplinary research group at Boulder, with a current focus on soft, muscle-mimetic actuators and sensors, sustainable energy generation and energy harvesting for biomedical applications, and functional polymers. His high-quality work has been published in top journals including Science, PNAS, Advanced Materials and Nature Chemistry, and by international awards such as the EAPromising European Researcher Award (2013), from the European Scientific Network for Artificial Muscles. For more information, visit Keplinger’s website.