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Prof. Wolf earned all of his academic degrees from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Immediately after receiving his Ph.D., he joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a research scientist, as well as the Institute for Computer-Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery as research faculty and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as an Adjunct Faculty member of CT Surgery. In March 2006, Prof. Wolf returned to Israel and joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion. There, he founded a new research lab, the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab (BRML). The objective of the research in BRML is to develop fundamental theories in bio-kinematics and biomechanics, as well as to apply these theories to medical robotics and biorobotics applications.

Prof. Wolf’s work has been published in more than 180 publications, including leading international scientific journals, book chapters, patents, and conferences (as keynote and invited lectures). Prof. Wolf is a co-inventor and co-founder of Medrobotics Corporation and is the Director of FIRST in Israel, a volunteer activity aimed at promoting STEM (science, technology, and math) among young school students (with 15,000 participants in Israel).

Prof. Wolf is also an Associate Editor for the prestigious journals Clinical Biomechanics, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, and serves on the editorial boards of several leading international journals. He has won numerous research awards and was elected to the 2016-2017 IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Distinguished Lecturer Program. He was also awarded the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Recently, he was appointed Director of the Israeli Olympic Sport Research Centre.

Prof. Wolf’s urban search and rescue snake robot and his surgical snake robot were selected as the best technologies of 2012 and 2014, respectively, by the prestigious journal Popular Science. On October 1, 2019, Prof. Wolf took office as Technion Vice-President for External Relations and Resource Development.