Dr. Mirko Kovac is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory as part of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. He obtained his PhD with the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems within the School of Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 2005 with his Master Thesis carried out at University of California in Berkeley, USA. During his studies he was research associate with RIETER Automotive Switzerland, the WARTSILA Diesel Technology Division in Switzerland, and CISERV in Singapore. Since 2006, he has presented his work at several international conferences and in journals and has supervised 26 B.A./M.S. level student projects, one of which received the 2008 Foundation Annaheim prize for the best student project. In 2011 he won the Best Conference Paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, in 2009 the JTCF Novel Technology best paper award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’2009) and the 2009 runner up best poster award at the research day at EPFL. His research interest is the conception and design of novel locomotion and control methods for mobile robots and their analogy in biological systems.

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