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Solaiman Shokur

solaiman.shokur@epfl.ch

EPFL STI IBI-STI TNE
B3 4 225.134 (Campus Biotech bâtiment B3)
Ch. des Mines 9
1202 Genève

EPFL STI INX-STI TNE
B3 4 243.134 (Campus Biotech bâtiment B3)
Ch. des Mines 9
CH-1202 Genève

EPFL STI INX-STI TNE
B3 4 243.134 (Campus Biotech bâtiment B3)
Ch. des Mines 9
CH-1202 Genève

Expertise

Dr. Solaiman Shokur is a neuroengineer and scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. (2013) and master (2004) at EPFL.He is currently senior scientist at the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroengineering in Geneva.
His work involves the development, and validation of new technologies to restore sensory-motor functions for patients with complete paraplegia and upper arm amputation.
His area of expertise includes virtual reality for rehabilitation, invasive and non-invasive brain-machine interfaces, and haptic devices.

Expertise

Dr. Solaiman Shokur is a neuroengineer and scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. (2013) and master (2004) at EPFL.He is currently senior scientist at the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Translational Neuroengineering in Geneva.
His work involves the development, and validation of new technologies to restore sensory-motor functions for patients with complete paraplegia and upper arm amputation.
His area of expertise includes virtual reality for rehabilitation, invasive and non-invasive brain-machine interfaces, and haptic devices.

2019 - now : Senior Scientist, Translational neuroengineering Laboratory, EPFL(Geneva)Team leader: CHRONOS project, a multi-center European project that aims at developing the first chronically implanted prosthetic hand for transradial amputee patients with bidirectional communication capabilities.
NCCR Robotics: Bi-directional control of supernumerary limbs.

2014-2019: Research Coordinator, AASDAP (São Paulo, Brazil)
Responsible for both the scientific production and the clinical protocol at the AASDAP neurorehabilitation laboratory.
2013-2014:
Postdoctoral associate,
Walk again project, Insituto Santos Dumond. (Natal, RN, Brazil)
Head of the engineering team in charge of the system integration.
2010-2012:
Visiting scientist, Nicolelis Lab (Duke University).
Development and validation of a virtual-reality based brain-machine interface for rhesus monkeys.
2007 & 2010: Teaching assistant, Laboratory of Robotics Systems (EPFL)


Selected publications

Creating a neuroprosthesis for active tactile exploration of textures

J. E. O’Doherty, S. Shokur *, L. E. Medina, M. A. Lebedev, M. A. L. Nicolelis
Published in submitted in

Non-invasive, Brain-controlled functional electrical stimulation for locomotion rehabilitation in paraplegic patients.

A. Selfslagh, S. Shokur*, D. S.F. Campos, A. R. C. Donati, S. Almeida, M. Bouri, M. A. L. Nicolelis
Published in Scientific Reports 9, no. 1 (2019): 6782 in

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Mouhamed Zorkot, Jonathan Muheim, Xiangyu Xu, Mélina Océane Lasfargues

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Giulia Dominijanni (2024), Franklin Leong (2025), Leonardo Pollina (2026)

Courses

Haptic human robot interfaces

MICRO-553

This course teaches basic knowledge on haptic devices, force feedback and mechanical man-machine interfaces. Lectures are about 40 %, the rest is hands-on practical work with the "haptic paddle", a complete mechanical device with full laptop control interface. Realization of project in groups of 2.