Prof. Gursel Alici is a Senior Professor at the University of Wollongong where he is the Executive Dead of Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences and director of Applied Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering Research (AMBER) Group. He has held a visiting professorship position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) (2007, 2010), City University of Hong Kong (2014), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) (2015), and University of British Columbia, Canada (2019). He received his Ph.D. in robotics from the Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University (1994). He won the Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award in 2010, the Vice-Chancellors Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award in 2013, and the Vice-Chancellors Award for Research Supervision in 2018 from the University of Wollongong. His research interests include soft robotics, system dynamics and control, robotic drug delivery systems, novel actuation concepts for biomechatronic applications, robotic mechanisms and manipulation systems, soft and smart actuators and sensors, wearable human-machine interface (HMI) systems, and medical robotics.