Markus Nemitz
617-627-3859
574 Boston Ave, Room 318J
Research/Areas of Interest
Pushing towards his vision of rapidly designing robots and materializing them at points of impact, Prof. Nemitz's research interests encompass 3D-printable robots, real-time adaptive additive manufacturing, and automated discovery processes for robotic materials.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2018
- M.S., University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2014
- B.Eng., Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Germany, 2012
Biography
Dr. Markus Nemitz is a tenured Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University, the inaugural Jon Levy Faculty Fellow, and director of the Nemitz Robotics Group. He also holds an affiliate appointment in Computer Science and is a a core faculty member of the Tufts Epsilon Materials Institute (TEMI). His group builds the tools to manufacture robot swarms: fast soft-material 3D printing, automated robot assembly, and evolutionary design coupled to fabrication. The main application is landmine and sea-mine clearance. He earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Whitesides Group at Harvard University until 2020. From 2020 to 2024 he was on the faculty of WPI's Robotics Engineering Department. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2023 for his work on 3D-printable robots, and his research is funded by NSF and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).