Biography

Dr. Amartya Ganguly is a Group Leader and Senior Scientist at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich, where he leads the Intelligent Neuroprosthetics research group. His work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, biomechanics, and robotics, with a focus on developing intelligent assistive and rehabilitative technologies for the upper limb.

Dr. Ganguly received his PhD from the University of Hull, UK. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Keele University, he was part of the team that developed the world’s leading real-time neuromusculoskeletal model of the human hand – a landmark contribution that remains the current state-of-the-art in upper limb modelling, incorporating proprioceptive models in user-in-the-loop scenarios.

His early career was distinguished by selection for the prestigious Horizon 2020 Innosup programme, through which he served as an Innovation Associate at Marsi Bionics in Madrid, Spain. In this role, he contributed to clinical testing of the world’s first paediatric exoskeleton and played a central role in establishing a state-of-the-art Biomechanics laboratory in collaboration with CSIC-CAR Madrid.

Dr. Ganguly has also contributed to clinical translation through the EIT Health project, a multinational initiative in partnership with the University of Heidelberg, INRIA, and CNRS at the University of Montpellier, France, focused on developing hand models for clinical use cases. His broader expertise spans neuromusculoskeletal modelling, CE certification of medical devices, wearable assistive devices, and clinical trials.

In recognition of his contributions to the field, Dr. Ganguly is the recipient of an Early Career Award co-funded by the Indian and German governments through the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC). He is also a member of the EU COST Action CA16116 initiative on Wearable Robotics, a collaborative network bringing together leading academic and industrial partners to advance cutting-edge assistive and rehabilitative technologies.

Contact

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Selected Publications

• Christopher Herneth, Yi Cheng, Amartya Ganguly, Sami Haddadin, Tension Dependent Twisted String Actuator Modelling and Efficacy Benchmarking in Force and Impedance Control, 2025. [Project Page]
• Junnan Li, Amartya Ganguly, Luis F. C. Figueredo, Sami Haddadin, The Fingertip Manipulability Assessment of Tendon-Driven Multi-Fingered Hands, 2024. [Project Page]
• Srinivasan Lakshminarayanan, Daniel A Duecker, Andriy Sarabakha, Amartya Ganguly, Leila Takayama, Sami Haddadin, Estimation of External Force acting on Underwater Robots, 2024. [Project Page]
• Christopher Herneth, Amartya Ganguly, Sami Haddadin, Functional kinematic and kinetic requirements of the upper limb during activities of daily living: a recommendation on necessary joint capabilities for prosthetic arms, 2024. [Project Page]
• Sonja Groß, Michael Ratzel, Edgar Welte, Diego Hidalgo-Carvajal, Lingyun Chen, Edmundo Pozo Fortunic, Amartya Ganguly, Abdalla Swikir, Sami Haddadin, OPENGRASP-LITE Version 1.0: A Tactile Artificial Hand with a Compliant Linkage Mechanism, 2024. [Project Page]
• Muhammad Hilman Fatoni, Christopher Herneth, Junnan Li, Fajar Budiman, Amartya Ganguly, Sami Haddadin, Optimizing Interaction Space: Enlarging the Capture Volume for Multiple Portable Motion Capture Devices, 2024. [Project Page]
• Junnan Li, Lingyun Chen, Johannes Ringwald, Edmundo Pozo Fortunic, Amartya Ganguly, Sami Haddadin, Identification and validation of the dynamic model of a tendon-driven anthropomorphic finger, 2024. [Project Page]
• Christopher Herneth, Junnan Li, Muhammad Hilman Fatoni, Amartya Ganguly, Sami Haddadin, Object Augmentation Algorithm: Computing virtual object motion and object induced interaction wrench from optical markers, 2024. [Project Page]
• Junnan Li, Amartya Ganguly, Luis F. C. Figueredo, Sami Haddadin, Tendon to Object Space: Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Finger for Human-Like Performance, 2023. [Project Page]
• Sonja Groß, Diego Hidalgo-Carvajal, Silija Breimann, Nicolai Stein, Amartya Ganguly, Abdeldjallil Naceri, Sami Haddadin, Soft Sensing Skins for Arbitrary Objects: An Automatic Framework, 2023. [Project Page]
• Veronika Spieker, Amartya Ganguly, Sami Haddadin, Cristina Piazza, An Adaptive Multi-Modal Control Strategy to Attenuate the Limb Position Effect in Myoelectric Pattern Recognition, 2021. [Project Page]