My research focused on three major topics related to sensory feedback:

• Using non-invasive electrical stimulation to induce sensations of touch referred to the phantom hand. In a 2017 Scientific Reports article, I showed how this approach could reproduce many of the exciting functional benefits demonstrated with more invasive strategies, but without implants.
• Providing multimodal sensory feedback, where the aim is to restore more than just one type of sensation. In my research, I focused on restoring proprioceptive information (about the position of the fingers) alongside tactile information. I demonstrated that both streams of information were used simultaneously to infer object properties during grasping, such as the size and stiffness of a cylinder. My results were published in Science Robotics, and an open-access (preprint) version is available here.
• Improving the quality of the restored tactile sensations. In a Neuron paper, my colleagues and I demonstrated that by using biomimicry to deliver higher-fidelity tactile impulses into the nerves, we could induce artificial touch sensations which felt more natural than with classical approaches. The cover I designed was used for the Neuron issue in which our work appeared (pictured on the left).

If you want to know more about this research, my PhD thesis contains in-depth information about my work. Additionally, if you reach out, I would be happy to discuss it.

We developed a head-mounted display add-on capable of detecting facial expressions from muscle activity (measured via electrical and mechanical effects) using machine learning. We won a startup prize and associated funding which allowed us to develop custom circuits and sensors optimally suited for this application and file a patent application.

Although the project was eventually discontinued, the domain knowledge, technical expertise and experience I developed during these years was ultimately what allowed me to join Magic Leap, one of the world's best-funded startups, to work on user sensing and related applications.

Here is a selection of some of the most recent websites we created:

• Snowmaps: a homegrown website we developed to keep skiers up to date on the latest slope conditions throughout Switzerland.
• Marlowe: a creative agency representing artists in France.
• Peter Lippmann: a Paris based photographer.
• Swiss scientific journalism association: public facing website as well as a private social network.
• Privatim: the Swiss organism for data protection.
• Contactpointnano: the Swiss resource for nanotechnologies.

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