Heike Vallery
{{Short description|German mechanical engineer}}
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Heike Vallery is a German mechanical engineer whose research involves the development of robot legs and exoskeletons to assist in human walking, including applications in prosthetics and medical rehabilitation.{{r|hf}} She is a professor of biomechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University.
Education and career
Vallery was a student of mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, earning a diploma there in 2004,{{r|tud}} after which she earned a doctorate (Dr. Ing.) from Technical University of Munich in 2009.{{r|tud}}
She was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich and an assistant professor at Khalifa University before becoming a faculty member at Delft University of Technology in 2012.{{r|tud}}
She added an affiliation as honorary professor at Erasmus MC, a medical research center in Rotterdam, in 2019.{{r|tud}} She was named as an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University, with a joint affiliation between Delft and Aachen, in 2022.{{r|humboldt}} She is currently Head of the Institute of Automatic Control at RWTH Aachen University, successing Dirk Abel.{{Cite web |url = https://www.irt.rwth-aachen.de/cms/IRT/Das-Institut/~jbbp/Team/?lidx=1 | title = Institute of Automatic Control - RWTH Aachen University | access-date=28 September 2023}}
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External links
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