College of Supervisors
Below is a list of academics who are available to supervise our students’ PhD research projects (ordered alphabetically by departments):
Aerospace
Professor Steve Burrow | Energy Harvesting
Professor Arthur Richards | Autonomous Navigation
Professor Tom Richardson | Aerial Robotics
Mr Carwyn Ward | Composites Manufacture
Dr Shane Windsor | Bio-inspired Flight
Biological Sciences
Prof Daniel Robert | Biomimetics
Chemistry
Prof Charl Faul | Electroactive Materials
Computer Science
Dr Tilo Burghardt | Vision and Biometrics
Prof Andrew Calway | Vision and Navigation
Prof Dima Damen | Deep Learning
Prof Kerstin Eder | Design Verification
Prof Walterio Mayol Cuevas | Robotics and Vision
Computer Science & Creative Technology
Prof Andrew Adamatzky | Unconventional Computing
Dr Steve Battle | Information Science
Dr Tom Mitchell | Computer Music
Engineering Design & Mathematics
Dr Amir Bolouri | Manufacturing
Dr Paul Bremner | Human Robot Interaction
Dr Carlos Cifuentes | Assistive Robotics
Dr Farid Dailami | Manufacturing, Smart Automation
Dr Appolinaire Etoundi | Biomedical Systems
Dr Virginia Ruiz Garate | Assistive Robotics
Dr Mark Hansen | Machine Vision
Dr Carlos Insaurralde | Electronic Engineering, Control
Dr Aghil Jafari | Haptics and Teleoperation
Dr Martin Pearson | Biomimetic Robots
Prof Lyndon Smith | Computer Simulation and Machine Vision
Dr Matthew Studley | Robotics and AI
Dr Ning Wang | Human Robot Interaction
Prof Alan Winfield | Swarm Robotics and Ethics
Dr Jonathan Winfield | Bioenergy
Dr Dan Withey | Intelligent Assistive Robotics
Prof Chenguan Yang | Robot Teleoperation
Dr Wenhao Zhang | Human Recognition and Interaction
Engineering Mathematics
Dr David Barton | Numerical Modelling
Dr Hermes Gadelha | Bio Robotics and Self Organisation
Dr Luca Giuggioli | Multi Agent Dynamics
Dr Sabine Hauert | Swarming and Nanobots
Dr Helmut Hauser | Morphological Computing and Soft Robotics
Dr Martin Homer | Nonlinear Agents
Dr Edmund Hunt | Bio-inspired field swarm robotics
Prof Jonathan Lawry | Uncertainty Modelling
Dr Nathan Lepora | Biomimetic Perception
Dr Ryan McConville | Machine Learning and AI
Dr Hemma Philamore | Soft Robotics
Dr Efi Psomopoulou | Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Grasping and Manipulation
Prof Jonathan Rossiter | Soft Robotics
Prof Eddie Wilson | Intelligent Transportation
Experimental Psychology
Dr Chris Kent | Perceptual Cognition
Dr Ute Leonards | Perception, attention and action
Geography & Environment Management
Prof Graham Parkhurst | Sustainable Mobility
Health and Applied Sciences
Dr Ben De Lacy Costello | Healthcare Sensors
Dr Faatihah Niyi-Odumosu | Human Physiology and Rehabilitation
Management
Prof Richard Owen | Responsible Innovation
Mechanical Engineering
Dr Jeremy Burn | Biomechanics
Dr Andrew Conn | Bioinspired Soft Actuation
Prof Ben Hicks | Manufacturing Systems Design
Dr Tonia Tzemanaki | Medical Robotics
Physics