Biography
Iain A. Anderson is an Associate Professor with the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland. He has worked as a product designer (Fisher and Paykel Ltd) and a research engineer (Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand). In 2006 he founded the Biomimetics Laboratory (www.biomimeticslab.com) at the ABI. His research interests include control and self-sensing aspects of artificial muscle technology for energy harvesting and soft robotics applications. He is a founder (together with two of his PhD students), director and Chief Scientist for StretchSense Ltd. (www.stretchsense.com), a Biomimetics Lab spin-out company, launched in 2012 that produces soft elastomer sensors for monitoring human motion.