Under the leadership of Professor Lorenzo Masia, Professor Eckehard Steinbach and Professor Alexander König - from left to right - the scientific team at the Geriatronics Research Center is working tirelessly to achieve progress in this pioneering discipline, while at the same time establishing and expanding the campus in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the associated teaching activities.

Prof. Lorenzo Masia has been Deputy Director of MIRMI since October 1, 2024 and Executive Director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence since April 2025. He moved to TUM from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. The mechanical engineer specializes in robotics for rehabilitation. His research initially focused on rigid systems such as robot-assisted hands and wrists and, for more than ten years now, increasingly on flexible and soft systems known as exosuits. These have the task of supporting human movements such as walking, lifting or gripping. Lorenzo Masia and his team bring forward-looking ideas and research approaches to the field of geriatronics and will strengthen the development of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen campus in the long term. Interdisciplinarity is crucial for him: “An open community that integrates people with different skills and builds bridges is essential,” says the professor.

Prof. Eckehard Steinbach has already been closely involved with research in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for many years: as a member of the Board of Directors at MIRMI, he is responsible for the infrastructure and therefore also for the campus being built in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. At his TUM Chair of Media Technology, Professor Steinbach researches methodological principles and applications of audio-visual-haptic information processing and transmission.

The third member of the geriatronics management trio is Prof. Alexander König. Since 2025, he has held the Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence, which he took over from the founding father of geriatronics, Sami Haddadin. As the initiator and former CEO of reactive robotics - a company specializing in robotic assistance systems for the early mobilization of hospital patients - he brings many years of practical experience to the table and provides the team in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with valuable impetus with regard to the practical applicability of geriatronics research.

As senior scientist, Dr. Abdeldjallil Naceri and Hamid Sadeghian lead the team of now 16 international and interdisciplinary young scientists at the research center who are on their way to obtaining their doctorates.