On 4 April 2023, Prof. Dr. Syn Schmitt gave a talk on a framework for simulating muscle-driven movement that he has developed over the last two decades.

Using a cybernetic perspective, he aims to formulate building blocks for movement generation, learning and control. He discussed the challenge of incorporating the known motor control hierarchy into muscle stimulation models, and the increasing amount of information required to drive multi-muscle systems in dynamic conditions.

Prof. Dr. Syn Schmitt studied physics at the University of Stuttgart and earned his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Tuebingen, specializing in muscle modeling and computational biophysics. In 2012, he was appointed as a Junior Professor (Assistant Professor) at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2018, he has been a full Professor of Computational Biophysics and Biorobotics at the University of Stuttgart. In 2019, he founded the Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems. Syn Schmitt is a fellow of the Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science (SimTech) and a faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). He was appointed Adjunct Professor at the School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, in 2019. His research focuses on autonomous muscle-driven motion, with special interests in the design principles of the locomotion apparatus, non-linear dynamics of locomotion, motor control, and morphological computation in biological and technical systems.