Keynote Lectures
Mackenzie Mathis Towards the Neural Basis of Adaptive Motor Control
Bertarelli Foundation Chair of Integrative Neuroscience Assistant Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Scott Delp Frontiers in Human PerformanceResearch: Insights from Biomechanical Simulation and Machine Learning
James H. Clark Professor, School of Engineering and Medicine Stanford University
Molly Stevens Designing Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine and Soft Robotics
Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford
ESB 2025 Awards

Award winners in 2025.
Pre-courses
Learn by doing: Expert-led ESB 2025 pre-courses addressed primarily towards graduate students, post-docs, and young researchers.
- Artificial Intelligence Based Shape Representation
Instructors: Nazli Tümer, Morteza Homayounfar and Edwin Tay - Automated Model Discovery: A Hands-On Programming Experience
Instructors: Ellen Kuhl, Mathias Peirlinck, Skyler St. Pierre and Moritz Flaschel - Using the Agent-based Modelling Software BioDynaMo for Simulations in Biomechanics
Instructors: Roman Bauer and Vasileios Vavourakis - The Hard in Soft – Image-based Tissue Mechanics From Hard to Soft Tissues
Instructors: Marta Peña Fernández, Hari Arora and Uwe Wolfram - DeepLabCut For Measuring Animal Motion
Instructors: Mackenzie Mathis
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