Heike Vallery is a German mechanical engineer whose research involves the development of robot legs and exoskeletons to assist in human walking, including applications in prosthetics and medical rehabilitation.[1] She is a professor of biomechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University.

Education and career

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Vallery was a student of mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, earning a diploma there in 2004,[2] after which she earned a doctorate (Dr. Ing.) from Technical University of Munich in 2009.[2]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich and an assistant professor at Khalifa University before becoming a faculty member at Delft University of Technology in 2012.[2]

She added an affiliation as honorary professor at Erasmus MC, a medical research center in Rotterdam, in 2019.[2] She was named as an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University, with a joint affiliation between Delft and Aachen, in 2022.[3] She is currently Head of the Institute of Automatic Control at RWTH Aachen University, successing Dirk Abel.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Heike Vallery: Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence 2023, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, retrieved 2023-05-28
  2. ^ a b c d Prof. Dr. Ing. H. (Heike) Vallery, TU Delft, retrieved 2023-05-28
  3. ^ Heike Vallery has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Award, TU Delft, 16 June 2022, retrieved 2023-05-28
  4. ^ "Institute of Automatic Control - RWTH Aachen University". Retrieved 2023-09-28.
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