In 2021, Dr. Miriyev was appointed as Senior Lecturer (Tenure-track Assistant Professor) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel.​ At BGU, Dr. Miriyev is a PI and Director of the Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI) Laboratory. Dr. Miriyev's PAI research inherently combines materials, design and advanced manufacturing.

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In 2019-2021, Dr. Miriyev was a scientist at Empa- Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, based in Dübendorf, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. At Empa, Dr. Miriyev has worked at the new and unique Materials and Technology Center of Robotics (currently Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics), synergistically bridging Robotics and Materials Science disciplines to develop robots of the future.

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In 2019-2021, Dr. Miriyev was also a visiting researcher at the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, where he conducted research activities in the Aerial Robotics Lab, directed by Prof. Mirko Kovač.

 

In 2015-2018, Dr. Miriyev was a  post-doctoral research scientist in the Creative Machines Lab, directed by  Prof. Hod Lipson at Columbia University in the City of New York. Aslan's research has focused on soft functional materials, such as soft robotic actuators, as a part of an ambitious attempt to develop an autonomous robot that will walk out of the printer. Aslan has been the ISEF post-doctoral fellow since 2015.

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Dr. Miriyev obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Ph.D. in 2015).

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Editorial service:

• Actuators - an active member of the editorial board

• Actuators- guest editor, special issue on "Soft Actuation: State of the Art and Outlook," 2020

• Plos One- co-guest editor, call for papers on "Open Soft Robotics Research," 2019-2020

• Actuators- guest editor, special issue on "New Materials and Designs for Soft Actuators," 2018-2019

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Conferences and workshops:

• IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics RoboSoft 2021, April 2021-                                              "Materials Intelligence," workshop initiator and co-organizer

• 1st International Electronic Conference on Actuator Technology IeCaT 2020, November 2020-           conference committee member, "Soft and Biohybrid Robotics," session initiator and organizer 

• International Conference on Welding, Joining and Additive Manufacturing WJAM2015, January 2015-      organizing committee member, "Additive Manufacturing" symposium initiator, organizer, and session chair.

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