Matjaž was awarded his University Diploma in Electrical Engineering from University of Ljubljana in November 2012. He spent two years working at JSI's Humanoid and Cognitive Robotics Lab, where he also finished his diploma project on humanoid robot balance control. He joined Shadow Robot Company in August and began his postgraduate study at Imperial College in October 2013. His research interests are tactile sensing and rendering, adaptive control and sensory substitution in telemanipulation.