Christian Di Natali received a Master's degree (Hons.) in Biomedical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy (2010) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University, USA (2015). During his Ph.D. he was actively involved in the design of advanced magnetic coupling and magnetic localization for robotic surgery and endoscopy. After his Ph.D. he worked for the E.GO s.r.l. as Technical Manager, designing industrial autonomous machines for the production of wound electric motors. In 2017 he joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, and he is currently a researcher in the exoskeletons group (XoLab) at the department of Advanced Robotics (ADVR) working on the development of industrial and soft exoskeletons.