At ETH, his research focuses on the development and clinical validation of technologies for the exploration, assessment, and restoration of sensorimotor function in neurological disorders such as stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease.

Roger Gassert is vice president of the strategic board of the CYBATHLON, president of the foundation board of external pageAccess for allcall_made, and Swiss national contact person of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (external pageAAATEcall_made). He is also a co-founder of external pageAuxivo AGcall_made, an ETH spin-off that develops wearable exoskeletons to support workers executing physically demanding tasks.