Simone Kager

Simone Kager is a postdoctoral researcher in the Future Health Technologies programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre. She is associated with the Connected Rehabilitation Technology and Assistive Devices module, which targets to support patients along the continuum of care by transferring rehabilitation technologies from clinics to homes.

During her Ph.D. studies at National University of Singapore in close collaboration with Nanyang Technological University, Simone developed various control paradigms for the interaction of stroke patients and the rehabilitation robot H-Man and investigated their effects on motor performance and motor learning in clinical trials. Furthermore, she studied the impact of impairment levels in haptic human-human interaction to understand its translatability to current robotic rehabilitation. Large parts of her Ph.D. work are licensed to the spin-off company Articares Pte. Ltd.. Simone also holds an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Munich.

Prior to returning to academia, Simone worked in the medical device industry, specifically at Brainlab Robotics and in the medical robotics department of FRANKA EMIKA, where she was in charge of developing regulatory pathways and leading technical developments according to the Medical Device Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/745) and medical device standards (e.g., IEC 60601-1).

Combining her academic and industrial experience, in her research, she aims to understand what is required to make rehabilitative interventions for neurologically impaired patients more impactful, both from an interaction control and assessment point of view as well as from an accessibility and acceptability perspective.