Dr. Giulio Grasso is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and he is part of the Biomimetic Materials and Machines group. He obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari (Italy), in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He then joined the Soft Transducers Laboratory of EPFL (Switzerland), first as a research assistant and then as a doctoral student. During his doctoral studies, he developed additive manufacturing processes for zipping electrostatic actuators for on-skin haptic feedback applications, and gained expertise in soft MEMS fabrication processes electro-mechanical design of electrostatic actuators, and both analytical and FEM-based modelling. He obtained the title of Doctor of Science in 2024.