Damien Chablat obtained his doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes and the University of Nantes in 1998. For a year, he worked at McGill University's Intelligent Machinery Centre with Professor Angeles. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1999 to work within the robotics group of the Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes (IRCCyN). He became a senior researcher at the CNRS in 2011. In 1 January 2017, IRCCyN was renamed LS2N, Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes. He is now the team leader of a robotics team studying humanoid robots, bioinspired robots, and the interaction between humans and robots. His research interests include robotics, parallel manipulator design and human fatigue assessment for industrial tasks.