Metin Sitti

Metin Sitti
Metin Sitti Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany
Born	July 1970 (age 53–54)
Alma mater	Boğaziçi University (1992, B.Sc., Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Physics) Boğaziçi University (1994, M.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering) University of Tokyo (1999, PhD in Electrical Engineering)
Known for	Microrobotics Medical Devices Bio-inspired engineering Physical Intelligence Soft robotics
Awards	Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year Award (Engineering and Technology Category) (2020) ERC Advanced Grant (2019) Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences (2019) Rahmi Koç Science Prize (2018) Best Paper Award, RSS (2019) Best Medical Robotics Award Finalist, ICRA (2018 and 2017) IEEE/ASME Best Mechatronics Paper Award (2014) IEEE Fellow (2014) Best Poster Award, Adhesion Conference (2014) SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award (2011) Best Paper Award, IROS (2009 and 1998) Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2006-2008) National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2005) Best Biomimetics Paper Award, ROBIO (2004) Best Video Award, ICRA (2002) Japanese Ministry of Education PhD Fellowship (1996–1999)
Scientific career
Fields	Robotics Materials Science Microtechnology Nanotechnology Biomedical engineering Medicine
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems ETH Zurich Koç University University of Stuttgart
Website	pi.is.mpg.de/person/sitti

Metin Sitti is the Director of the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, which he founded in 2014. He is also a Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich,^[1] a Professor at the School of Medicine and College of Engineering at Koç University^[2] and co-founder of Setex Technologies Inc. based in Pittsburgh, USA.