Florian Petit is currently conducting his Ph. D. thesis at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He studied computer science and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and Stanford University. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich with a B.Sc. and Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2008.

His past research experience includes work on the design and control of a mobile teleoperation platform (Prof. Hirzinger, DLR), dynamic locomotion with quadrupeds (ASL, Prof. Siegwart, ETHZ), and the development of a robotic foot ancle system (LOCOLab, Prof. Waldron, Stanford University). Main interests are the control of variable impedance actuated robots and nonlinear control of robotic and dynamic systems.