Cecilia Laschi (M’00-SM’12-F’23) Cecilia Laschi is Provost’s Chair Professor of robotics at the National University of Singapore, leading the Soft Robotics Lab. She is Co-Director of CARTIN – Centre for Advanced Robotics Technology and Innovation. She is on leave from the BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. Cecilia Laschi is best-known for her research in soft robotics, an area that she pioneered and contributed to develop at international level. She explores marine applications of soft robots and their use in the biomedical field, with a focus on eldercare. She is Editor-in-Chief of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics and Specialty Chief Editor of Soft Robotics in Frontiers in Robotics & AI. She is Editorial Board member of Science Robotics and IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters. She is IEEE Fellow and founded the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft). She is Co-Chair of Robotics Gordon Research Conference 2024. She co-founded the spin-off company RoboTech.