Simone Schuerle
Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich
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About
Simone Schuerle is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, mechanobiology, and biomedical engineering, with a core focus on developing micro- and nanoscale tools to probe and manipulate biological systems. Her major contributions include the invention of a 5D magnetic tweezers system (5D-MTS) that enables unprecedented spatiotemporal control over microscopic objects, as demonstrated in her highly cited 2017 study on phagocytosis—where she robotically controlled microprey to reveal how macrophages initiate attack modes, a finding with 58 citations that illuminates fundamental immune mechanics. More recently, in 2025, Schuerle has broken new ground by engineering microalgae-powered skeletal muscle constructs, achieving enhanced force production and viability—a breakthrough for tissue engineering and biohybrid robotics. Her work elegantly bridges robotics and biology, offering transformative tools for studying cellular mechanics and building living machines. With her innovative approach to microrobotic control and biohybrid systems, Schuerle is shaping the future of how we understand and engineer life at the microscale.
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