Shivesh Kumar is a researcher and team leader of the Mechanics & Control team at the Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Bremen. He obtained his PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bremen in November 2019 with summa cum laude. Previously, he holds a master's degree in Control Engineering, Robotics, and Applied Informatics with specialization in Advanced Robotics from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France in 2015 and bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India in 2013. His research interests include kinematics, dynamics and control of robots with applications in the fields of exoskeletons, humanoids, rehabilitation and industrial automation.