Cosimo Della Santina received the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in robotics from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2019. He is currently an Associate Professor with TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, and a Guest Research Scientist with the German Aerospace Institute (DLR), Munich, Germany. He was a visiting Ph.D. student and a Postdoc with Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 2017 to 2019. He was a Senior Postdoc and a Guest Lecturer with the Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, in 2020 and 2021, respectively. His research interest is in providing motor intelligence to unconventional robotic systems, especially those involving elastic and soft components. Dr. Della Santina is the Delft AI lab SELF co-director and a VENI laureate. He has been awarded the 2020 Georges Giralt Ph.D. Award, the 2023 IEEE RAS Early Career Award, and an ERC Starting Grant in 2024. In 2025, he co-founded the Swiss-based start-up Embodied AI, the soft robotics company that will finally bring safe and capable robots among people.