I am Ebrahim Shahabi, a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, working on tactile sensing, compliant robotics, and physical interaction. I develop sensors and robotic systems that use contact to understand and interact with unfamiliar objects.
My research combines mechanical design, embedded sensing, and experimental validation, including work on optical tactile sensors, octopus-inspired suction cups, soft actuators, and reconfigurable grippers. I serve as Work Package Leader in the EIC Pathfinder project EMERGE and Co-Principal Investigator of the euROBIN project SHARP, alongside student supervision and teaching in robotics.
I earned my PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2023, conducting research at the Italian Institute of Technology on octopus-inspired sensing and grasping. Previously, I spent seven years in industrial R&D and two years as a researcher at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. This background shapes my practical approach to building and testing robotic hardware.
