Meng Li receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Stuttgart – Dr. Meng Li’s work focuses on searching new material composites and properties, and how the interplay of both can help making next-generation soft actuators/robots that are based on new working mechanisms and novel functions. She has been working on biomaterials, optic materials, and magnetic materials during her master and doctoral research. Meng received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Tufts University, USA, in 2020. On September 1, 2020, she joined the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart with the support of a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers.

“I’ve been following Professor Sitti’s work since my first year of Ph.D. and I am very excited to join his group as a postdoc. I look forward to working with him and his talented group members,” says Meng.

"Meng is a top researcher from Tufts University, USA to join our soft milli/microrobotics team and I am sure that she will have many a high impact research outcome on new tiny soft machines for medical use during her stay," says Sitti, who heads the Physical Intelligence Department.

Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants approximately 500 fellowships to postdoctoral researchers of all nationalities and disciplines from abroad. They must have above average qualifications, be at the beginning of their academic career and have only completed their doctorate in the past four years. A Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers allows the awardee to carry out long-term research of six months to two years in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their academic host.

Find out more about the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship here