Lorenzo Masia is Full Professor in Medical Technology and Biorobotics at Heidelberg University (Germany) at the Institute of Computer Engineering or Institut für Technische Informatik (ZITI). He graduated in Mechanical Engineering at “Sapienza” University of Rome in 2003 and in 2007 he accomplished his PhD at the University of Padua. He was at first postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and then Team Leader of the Motor Learning and Rehabilitation Laboratory of the Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department. He was an Assistant Professor at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore, leading the ARIES Lab (Assistive Robotics and Interactive Ergonomic Systems). He was Associate Professor in Biodesign at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) from June 2018 to March 2019.