Julie Legrand

Julie Legrand is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Eindhoven University of Technology, affiliated with the Group Van de Molengraft. Her work focuses on soft robotics, self-healing materials, and medical robotics applications. She designs actuators and sensors for adaptive robotic systems, emphasizing resilience through self-healing mechanisms and embodied intelligence.

She teaches courses including Control of a Flexible Robot System, Haptics and Soft Robotics, and Robot-Arm, reflecting her expertise in both theoretical and applied robotics. Her research spans actuator design, material science integration, and minimally invasive surgical robotics, with notable contributions to self-healing actuator validation and continuum robot end-effectors for surgical applications.

Legrand collaborates internationally on topics like shape memory alloys and anisotropic materials, and her work has been featured in media for breakthroughs in self-healing polymer limitations in soft robots. She actively contributes to the Medical Robotics research theme at TU/e, advancing interdisciplinary approaches to robotic systems in healthcare.