Dr. Florian Hartmann is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, leading the Biomimetic Materials and Machines Group. Dr. Hartmann focuses on the development of soft robotics and electronics, additive manufacturing of functional materials, and sustainable technology. He is a trained physicist and received a doctoral degree in Technical Sciences in 2021 from the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria, working with Prof. Martin Kaltenbrunner. After his doctoral studies, Florian Hartmann worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Herbert Shea at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. There, he developed small-scale swimming robots and soft actuation technologies for environmental monitoring in agriculture.