Researchers

Tiziana is a Senior Researcher in Work-Organisational Psychology and Human Factors. She obtained her PhD in Applied Psychology and Ergonomics at the University of Turin, and then pursued her academic career overseas employing interdisciplinary approaches at different Schools and Research centres in: US (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston), Australia (Deakin University), Ireland (Trinity College, Dublin) and the UK (Coventry University, Coventry; University of Leeds, Leeds). Taking a systems approach, her research interests focus on improving the interaction between work operators and the different systems’ components/elements. In her research, she has addressed topics such as; safety in different (e.g. transport, healthcare,… [Read more]

Dr Nan Ma is a Research Associate with the Department of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K. He came to UK of the University of Nottingham from 2016 as a visiting student for two years. After his graduation of PhD, He worked in the University of Nottingham as the Research Fellow for the Innovate of UK supported project (CHIMEAR, Project Grant: £2,413,639), developing a long stiffening continuum robot (length: 1.5 m, diameter: 12.6 mm, expanded dimension of stiffening section: 120 mm from nature dimension of 13 mm) for the engine combustor inspection and maintenance (Roll-Royce, Trent 900).… [Read more]

Masoud holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Yazd University, Iran (2018). He joined Loughborough University as a Research Associate in "Sensing and Perception for Industrial Robotics" in 2022. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sirjan University of Technology, Sirjan, Iran from 2017 to 2019 and from 2021 to 2022. Formerly, he worked at the City University of London as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in "Planetary Robotics Navigation and Decision Making", on the Horizon 2020 EU-funded project (PRO-ACT project) from 2019 to 2021. He has also been a Research Assistant at the Autonomous and Intelligence… [Read more]

Lee Loong Yi is a posdoctoral research associate with the Bristol Softlab at the University of Bristol. He is keen on bringing robots and humans closer together via focusing on accessibility in robotics and automation. Currently, his research focus includes digital fabrication, optimisation, and application of soft robotic technologies for manipulation. [Read more]

Saekwang Nam is a postdoctoral research associate in the Dexterous Robotics Group of Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). His main interests are understanding contact mechanics created on a (human/robot) finger and applying the knowledge for object manipulation. Before joining BRL, he worked as a doctoral student at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, studying fingerpad-surface interaction. In addition, he has a wide variety of study/research experiences in Japan, the United States, South Korea, Germany, and the United Kingdom. [Read more]

Anas Shrinah is a senior research associate in the verification and validation of Smart Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) Systems at the Trustworthy Systems Laboratory at the University of Bristol. Anas's research is focused on developing automatic test scenario generation methods and coverage analysis techniques to assess the effectiveness of simulation-based testing of HRC systems.   Anas has a first-class honours BEng in Computer and Automation Engineering. He spent two years working on different automation projects in the industry, followed by five years working as an instrumentation and control engineer for Petrofac in the oil and gas industry. In 2017, Anas was… [Read more]

Dr. Christopher Burns (B.A., MRes, Phd) is a cognitive psychologist with a background in individual differences, psychophysiology and research methods who obtained his doctorate from Edinburgh University in 2008. Chris has previously worked in driving simulation and medical training simulation (University College Cork), cognition, motivation and pain (Liverpool John Moores University), and automotive human factors (Warwick WMG and Jaguar Land Rover) and human factors in software evaluation (University of Edinburgh and Mozilla) using mixed-methods approaches including psychometrics, qualitative and psychophysiological measures. Chris Joined Cranfield University's School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing in August 2022 to work on aspects of Horizon… [Read more]

Iveta Eimontaite is a lecturer in Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors at Cranfield University. Her work mainly focuses on behavioural and cognitive aspects of Human-Technology Interaction with a particular interest in user needs and requirements for the successful integration of technology within the workplace and social environments. Furthermore, she is interested in assessing technology comfort and psychological safety via the use of physiological and neural data. [Read more]

Fahad Khan is a Research Assistant in Intelligent Automation at Cranfield University. He graduated from Cranfield University in Robotics Engineering and undergraduate in Mechatronics Engineering. His area of interests are Human Robot Collaboration, Industrial Automation, Robotics Control and Artificial Intelligence. [Read more]

Anne-Marie studied Cultural Anthropology (MA) and Social Informatics (PhD) at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining Cranfield University in April 2020, Anne-Marie held research positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, and the Rathenau Institute in The Hague. Anne-Marie’s work has been supported by a range of funders including the European Commission (FP7, H2020), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the University of Oxford’s Fell Fund. She held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship exploring e-democracy technologies and the problem of public trust (2007-2009).… [Read more]