DR. DAVID SARGENT

David Sargent has a B.Sc in physics and a Ph.D. in Biophysics. He had postdoctoral fellowships at the ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) and the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) before joining the staff of the ETH Zurich in the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics. He has worked in the fields of photometabolism, the electrical properties of biological membranes, and structural biology, with many publications in each field.

Since 2014 he has been associated with the Multiscale Robotics Laboratory (MSRL) (Head: Prof. Bradley Nelson) at the ETH Zurich, working on applications of magnetically controlled microrobots. He is presently CEO of MagnebotiX AG, a spin-off of the MSRL, where he is one of the cofounders.

Ankita Humne

Ankita is a Senior Robotics Development Engineer at MagnebotiX AG. Prior to joining MagnebotiX, she did her masters in Robotics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, with her thesis project at University College London.

Ankita did her bachelors in Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in India.

Ishika Paul

Ishika received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from University of Michigan in 2018 and her Master’s degree from University of Virginia in 2020 with a focus on Computer Architecture and Robotics. Her previous research work focused on designing resilient and cooperative autonomous vehicles by performing optimum path tracking using reachability analysis and transfer learning between various systems. She is passionate about teaching and was an instructor for a Computer Architecture course as part of a Graduate Teaching Fellowship.

She has been a Robotics Engineer at Magnebotix AG since September 2022 and will be working on designing and incorporating the

electromagnetic system to the 3D printer for the EVA project.