Syn Schmitt

Syn Schmitt (born June 13, 1975) is a German physicist. He is full professor for Computational Biophysics and Biorobotics (CBB)..at the University of Stuttgart and director of the Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems (IMSB) since 2018
==Life==
Syn Schmitt was born in Leonberg and grew up in Weil der Stadt. After middle school (Realschule), he took vocational training as electronics technician at IBM in Sindelfingen and attended Technische Oberstufe (highschool) in Stuttgart afterwards.https://freunde-to-stuttgart.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Tangente_55_HP.pdf He studied physics (Diplom/M.Sc.) and physics and physical education (Staatsexamen/M.Ed.) at the University of Stuttgart and obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Tübingen in 2006 supervised by Hanns Ruder.https://pro-physik.de/zeitschriften/download/11858 From 2009 to 2012 he was first junior research group leader and then from 2012 to 2018 junior professor at the University of Stuttgart, associated with the Cluster of Excellence SimTech. Since 2016 he is Fellow of the Stuttgart Center of Simulation Science. Since 2018 he has been Full Professor for Computational Biophysics and Biorobotics at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2019 he has been Adjunct Professor in the School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and Faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Cyber Valley Stuttgart Tübingen. From 2017 to 2022 he was member of the Senate's Committee for Gender and Diversity. Since 2019 he serves as member of the Committee for Responsibility in Research. In 2019 he co-founded the Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems at the University of Stuttgart together with his colleague Oliver Röhrle and serves as its director since then. Since 2023, he serves as speaker of the newly founded inter-university center Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS)
==Research==
In his research, he is interested in autonomous muscle-driven motion. His group works towards a better understanding of natural intelligent systems and to learn artificial intelligent systems to generate motion like natural, biological systems. His group develops new methods to model and simulate coupled biological systems, for example, digital human models. This includes biophysical interaction with the environment, somatosensory motor control, and computational neuroscience. One key research question is morphological intelligence, that is, "How does the biological morphology help in perceiving, acting and sensing for motion generation and control which otherwise would have to be done by the brain (nervous system)?". In that respect, understanding the biophysics of motion could be seen as a window into the nervous system to enhance our understanding of natural intelligence. On the technical side, the group strives to define new concepts for building biomimetic, artificial motion systems. This includes, in particular, muscle-driven robotic systems. The lessons learned from biology are applied not only in the virtual world but also to build real physical models, i. e., artificial intelligent machines.
==Outreach activities==
Since 2013, he is member of the Kepler society (Kepler Gesellschaft e.V.).
His research lead to an expert testimony in the so-called 'bathtub murder case' which ended with an acquittal of Manfred Genditzky, after 13 and a half years in prison.
Category:1975 births
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