Yves Perriard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1965. He received his M.Sc. degree in microengineering and a Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He was a co-founder of Micro-Beam SA. In 1998, he joined EPFL as a Senior Lecturer, becoming a Professor in 2003, where he is currently the Director of the Laboratory of Integrated Actuators. His research interests are in the field of new actuator design and associated electronic devices. In 2018, he was granted CHF 12 million to build up a new Center for Artificial Muscles (CAM) at EPFL. Prof. Perriard is a Member of the Executive Council and the board of the European Power Electronics Association (EPE), Brussels.