Jeremy Olivier studied Microengineering at EPFL and received a M.S. degree in 2008. He then worked as a hardware engineer for VirtaMed (a start-up company from Zurich, Switzerland) until 2011. The same year, he joined the LSRO as a Ph.D. candidate and started working on walking assistive devices for the elderly. His interests are in mechanical design and in mechatronics in general.