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Edmond Richer became a faculty member at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1999 and received a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Program UTSWMED-UT Arlington in 2005. In 2008 Edmond moved to the Mechanical Engineering department at Lyle School of Engineering, SMU, as an associate professor and the inaugural Robert C. Womack Chair in Engineering. He founded the Biomedical Instrumentation and Robotics Laboratory where he conducts research that straddles the border between engineering and biomedical sciences in advanced haptic interfaces, medical robotics, soft robots, and novel additive manufacturing. Edmond’s research was funded by NSF, DOD, NIH, NASA, and various industrial partners. He is an inventor or co-inventor on several US and international patents in ultrasound assessment of bone strength, novel additive manufacturing, multiphase flow measurement, and telecommunications. Edmond has served as Chair of ASME’s Dynamical Systems and Control Division, Biomechanical Panel, UT Southwestern Biomedical Engineering Steering Committee, the Chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee at SMU. Currently, he serves as Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and Elsevier Mechatronics.