Prof. Dr. David Franklin

Prof. Franklin studied human physiology and was awarded a Ph.D. in 2005 from the Department of Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University (Canada) in Ted Milner's group. He worked as a researcher at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (Kyoto, Japan) from 1999 to 2006 in the laboratory of Mitsuo Kawato. He then spent 3 years as a post-doctoral fellow in Daniel Wolpert's group in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (U.K.). In 2010 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust RCD Fellowship and started the Neuromechanics Group at the University of Cambridge. In 2016, he moved to TUM as the Professor for Neuromuscular Diagnostics.

email: david.franklin (at) tum.de

Dr. Raz Leib

Raz Leib received his Ph.D from the Biomedical Engineering department at Ben-Gurion University in 2016. He then worked as a short-term post-doctoral fellow at the biomedical-robotic laboratory (BGU) before moving to TUM in June 2018 as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2024 he became a senior scientist and leads the Neuromuscular Diagnostics group along with Prof. Franklin. He is interested in discovering the underlying principles of the human sensorimotor system, by combining experimental data and computational modeling techniques. In the Neuromuscular Diagnostics group, he is actively leading many research projects including representation of dynamics, control strategies in object manipulation, and Bayesian modeling of the sense of agency.

email: raz.leib (at) tum.de

Dr. Iain Hunter

Iain studied his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh from 2016-2020, and his first postdoc at the University of Manchester from 2020-2023. Iain joined the Chair for Neuromuscular Diagnostics in September 2023, and is interested in adaptation in intelligent systems. His main work focuses on how the stability that human impedance control provides to sensorimotor adaptation, may be abstracted and applied to improve performance of artificial intelligence.

email: iain.hunter (at) tum.de

Clara Günter

Clara Günter received her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in 2019. Her master's thesis focussed on sensory feedback by electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves in amputees. She moved to TUM in March 2019 and is working on human motor control, specifically related to different feedback modalities in grasping.

email: clara.guenter (at) tum.de

Jonathan Orschiedt

After his studies of Sport and Performance (BSc) at the German Sport University in Cologne, Jonathan Orschiedt worked as the Head of Athletic Training & Rehabilitation in the Youth Academy of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern. After graduating with a Master’s degree in Sport and Exercise Science from TUM in 2019, he started his PhD at the Chair of Neuromuscular Diagnostics. His master’s thesis and his research interest focuses on the influence of the learning context on the control strategies of bimanual reaching movements.

Ziyu Chen

Ziyu Chen received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering respectively from Tsinghua University and the University of Tokyo. He joined in 2019 and works at Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) as part of the Geriatronics Project. His R&D interests include kinematics, kinetics, and dynamic modeling of the human neuro-musculoskeletal system.

Yiming Liu

Yiming Liu received his B.Sc. degree in Automation Technology from Wuhan University (China) in 2016. In 2020, he received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich. His Master research focused on machine learning, control theory and robotics. Since October 2020, he joined the Chair of Neuromuscular Diagnostics as a PhD candidate, working on the control mechanism of human grasping movements.

Jing Zhang

Jing Zhang studied Biomechanics at the Beijing Normal University, and received her Masters in 2020. Her Masters research focused on the process of sensory decline and fall prevention in the elderly. She started her PhD at TUM in September 2021, working on how contextual information affects sensorimotor adaptation and sequential motor learning.
Email: jing.zhang (at) tum.de

Niklas Heimburger

Niklas Heimburger received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Sport and Exercise Science from TUM.  His master's thesis focused on the relationship between grip- and load-force in bimanual needle insertions. After graduating, he started his PhD at the Chair of Neuromuscular Diagnostics in 2023 and is working on grip force control in bimanual object manipulation.

Pascal Nietschmann

Pascal Nietschmann studied Sport & Exercise Science at TUM for his B.Sc. and M.Sc. and received his Masters in 2023. In his Masters thesis he investigated contextual cues in dual adaptation using a robotic manipulandum. Pascal started his PhD at the Chair of Neuromuscular Diagnostics in January 2024 and is working on sensorimotor learning by investigating human reaching movements.

email: pascal.nietschmann (at) tum.de

Mao Ono

Mao Ono joined the lab in 2019 and is responsible for office management and administration. She works Monday to Friday mornings in room M214. 

email: ono (at) tum.de

phone: +49 89 289 24538