Dario Wyss was born in 1984 in Aarau, Switzerland. He studied mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich and received his Masters degree in 2010. He joined the SMS Lab of Prof. Robert Riener in 2010 as a PhD student. His research focuses on rehabilitation engineering, especially on robot-aided gait rehabilitation. These days, Dario Wyss is co-directing the Cybathlon together with Dr. Roland Sigrist.