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Marc Bolliger is a prominent biomedical engineer and rehabilitation scientist whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, motor learning, and neurological recovery. Based primarily at a leading Swiss rehabilitation research center, Bolliger has dedicated his career to advancing robot-assisted rehabilitation technologies, particularly for patients with stroke, spinal cord injury, and cerebral palsy. His most influential contributions center on enhancing patient engagement during robotic gait training — a challenge as clinically significant as the technology itself. His 2013 work on virtual reality-based motor rehabilitation (151 citations) demonstrated how immersive feedback environments could meaningfully increase patient motivation and participation. Complementing this, his research on computerized visual feedback and active participation control (104 and 84 citations respectively) helped establish evidence-based frameworks for optimizing how patients interact with systems like the Lokomat driven gait orthosis. Bolliger has also pioneered physiological approaches to monitoring patients' psychological states during therapy (89 citations) and developed multidirectional overhead support systems for overground gait training (85 citations). His work spans pediatric and adult populations, addressing muscle stiffness in cerebral palsy and upper limb assessment in spinal cord injury. Across more than a decade of research, Bolliger has fundamentally shaped how clinicians think about measuring, motivating, and maximizing patient effort within robotic rehabilitation.