Service & Instruction

Leadership & Service Select

• 2026–present — Committee Fachausschuss member, Robotics Section of DGBMT German Society for Biomedical Technology
• March 2026 — Invited speaker, Women in STEM workshop on Leadership, Innovation & Confidence (University of Turin · Institut Catalan NanoTech · Nanobalkan partners)
• 2025–present — Editor at Institute of Physics Publishing for Bioinspiration and Biomimetics journal
• 2019–2022 — Guest Editor, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics

Scientific Conference Organisation Select

• 2025 — Invited Presentation, 5th International Conference Nanobalkan
• 2025 — Chair, Robotics and Surgical Systems Session, BMT Conference DACH
• 2025 — Chair, Movement Analysis Session, Biomedical Technology Conference
• 2025 — Moderator, Panel Discussion on Soft Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, 12th AMAM Conference
• 2025 — Program Member, 12th Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines Conference
• 2025 — Track Chair, 30th European Society for Biomechanics Congress
• 2025 — Perspective Presentation, 30th European Society for Biomechanics Congress
• 2023 — Program Chair & Keynote Speaker, Soft Robotics Symposium at 38th Congress of Polymer Processing Society (PPS38)
• 2022 — Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (Interdisciplinary Program)
• 2021–2022 — Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (Measurement Techniques Session)
• 2018 — Program Member, 9th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM)
• 2018 — Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics
• 2018 — Session Chair, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) workshop on multi-modal uses for limbs, tails, and body parts
• Ongoing — Session Chair: IEEE RoboSoft · Robotics Science and Systems · AMAM · IEEE ICRA
• Ongoing — Panel Moderator: «Soft Robotics & AI» (featuring Profs. Oliver Brock, Koh Hosoda, and other leaders)

Prizes, Awards & Fellowships Select

• July 2017 — Best Poster Award, 8th International Symposium Adaptive Motion Animals & Machines
• January 2014 — Postdoctoral Research Associate Award, Queens' College, Cambridge University
• November 2013 — Postdoctoral Research Affiliate Award, Darwin College, Cambridge University
• March 2012 — Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Student Instructors, U.C. Berkeley
• September 2010 — Fellowship for Prospective Researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation
• January 2009 — Best Student Paper Competition Runner-Up, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• August 2008 — William V. Power Award, University of California, Berkeley

Supervision of Junior Researchers

Highly interdisciplinary research environment composed of an inter-professional team. Eight postdoctoral researchers, four doctoral students, and more than a dozen graduate and undergraduate students have been supervised directly by Prof. Jusufi across the MPI for Intelligent Systems and the Soft Kinetics Group at Empa / UZH.

Teaching Activities

• 2026 — Analogue Electronics Lecture (Design of Simple Amplifier Circuit Using Operational Amplifier), University of Cape Town
• 2026 — Control Systems Engineering EEE3094S (Closed-Loop Systems and Controller Design), University of Cape Town
• 2025 — Mechatronics Class EEE4119F for final-year Mechatronic Engineering Bachelor students, University of Cape Town
• 2025 — Guest Lectures and Seminars, Lecture 262 (Evolutionary Morphology), University of Zurich
• 2024 — Guest Lecture on Robot Locomotion, University of Cape Town
• 2024 — Guest Lectures, Lab course Bio 267 (Functional Morphology), University of Zurich
• 2023 — Guest Lecture on Comparative Biomechanics in Paleontology, University of Zurich
• 2023 — Guest Lecture on Locomotor Physical Models (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, Empa)
• 2020–2025 — Seminars, Movement Academy summer school and Training Group LokoAssist, TU Darmstadt
• 2018 — Invited Lecture, Department of Biology, Macquarie University
• 2017 — Invited Lecture, Research School of Biology, Division of Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics, Australian National University
• 2017 — Guest Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart
• 2014 — Guest Lecture on Biomaterials Support Systems; Laboratory Course Practicals; Examiner (BBSRC Rotation Report), University of Cambridge
• 2014 — Member, Teaching and Learning Committee, Queens' College, Cambridge; seminar on «Research-based Teaching – Reflection on Practice»
• 2012 — Graduate Student Instructor, Comparative Physiology [148], U.C. Berkeley — received Award for Excellence in Teaching Assistance
• 2011 — Guest Lecture, Bio-Aerial Locomotion [EK 131], Boston University
• Earlier — Graduate Student Instructor, Mechanics of Organisms [135L] and Dynamics course, U.C. Berkeley

Open Positions