DrMajid Taghavi

Majid Taghavi joined Imperial in August 2021 to establish his interdisciplinary research group on Soft Robotic Transducers within the Department of Bioengineering. His goal is to pioneer the next generation of artificial muscles with extended functionalities, ultimately creating monolithic soft robots for health applications. His approach involves advancing the material, structure and functionality of soft actuators, incorporating features such as variable stiffness, graded stiffness, self-sensing, self-powered, adaptability and shape-shifting to establish novel core technologies for future wearable, implantable and surgical robotics.

Prior to this role, Majid served as a postdoctoral researcher in SoftLab at the University of Bristol, where he introduced multiple artificial muscle technologies. Notably, he developed a new class of electric actuators with gigantic force amplification, the highest contraction among any actuation technologies (> 98%), and a power density equivalent to human muscle. Majid earned his PhD in BioRobotics from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna with the highest honors, receiving the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) scholarship. During his doctoral studies, he delivered multiple electromechanical and bioelectrochemical energy harvesting and self-powered sensing technologies from nano to macro scales.

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