Israel Luis Peña

I am an inventor, researcher, and entrepreneur committed to developing human augmentation technologies. My postdoctoral research is on developing simulation-based wearable robot control based on musculoskeletal modelling and prototyping an ankle-foot wearable robot based on digital manufacturing.

I obtained my professional degree as a Mechatronics Engineer with an outstanding thesis at Pontifical University Catholic of Peru (PUCP) and worked as a researcher at the Biomechanics and Applied Robotics Research Lab at PUCP and CEO of Löfte, a startup that developed human augmentation technologies.

I have granted patents in wearable sensing and robot technologies, and scientific publications, including a Journal of Biomechanics and Plos Computational Biology.

I have participated in highly selective international programs among the principals are MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, HPAIR at the University of Harvard and Leader of Innovation Fellowship in the UK.

My Ph. D research was focused on simulating muscle mechanics and energetics using musculoskeletal simulations and developing an ankle-foot wearable robot. My work was under the supervision of Professor Elena M. Guitierrez Farewik at the KTH MoveAbility Lab.