Maziar Ahmad Sharbafi received his B.Sc. (2003) from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and his M.Sc. (2006) and Ph.D. (2013) from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, all in Control Engineering. He earned his second PhD in Biomechanics in 2017 from the Technical University of Darmstadt. He was an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Tehran, and a Guest Researcher at the Lauflabor Locomotion Laboratory, TU Darmstadt. He is now the leader of the Locomotion Control Assistance group at TU Darmstadt and the Principal Investigator in the EPA (electric-pneumatic actuator) project series (EPA and EPA-2) granted by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His research interests include bioinspired locomotion control based on conceptual and analytic approaches, postural stability, and the application of dynamical systems and nonlinear control to hybrid systems such as legged robots and exoskeletons.