Researchers

Dr. Haoran Li received his PhD at the University of Bristol in 2025. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Robotics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). His research interests include electromechanics design of tactile robotic hands, and vision-based tactile sensors. [Read more]

Duc is a Post Graduate Student Researcher working within the Advanced Manufacturing Processes & Systems (AMPS) Team [Read more]

Bowen is a Research Associate within the School of Engineering, Maths and Technology [Read more]

Silvia Terrile is a postdoctoral research associate with the Bristol Softlab at the University of Bristol. She pursued her PhD at the Polytechnic University of Madrid studying different soft robot prototypes (soft manipulators, soft grippers, bio-inspired soft robots, and wearable soft devices). Her research focuses on soft gripper and modular robotics to create versatile and reconfigurable robots that adapt to different needs. [Read more]

Bahadir obtained his BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of KTO Karatay University, Turkiye (2020). During his undergraduate education, hechad the opportunity to do a 1-month internship at TURKSAT and HAVELSAN, which are Turkiye's leading companies. Bahadir completed his master's degree in Communication and Signal processing at Newcastle University, UK (2021) and started his PhD studies on flexible robotic grippers at Cranfield University in September 2023. [Read more]

Rebecca is a Robotics Lecturer at Cranfield University and MK:U and course lead for the Robotics Apprentice Degree at MK:U. Research interests include Practical AI Ethics, Cognitive Robotics and Sustainability in AI. Please reach out for collaborations. [Read more]

Dr. Amr M. El-Sayed Ahmed is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Robotics & Autonomous Systems Research (RAS) Group, Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM), University of Strathclyde, UK, specializing in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) and Mechatronics design. His research interests include HRC, Bio-Mechatronics, Rehabilitation, and Smart Manufacturing. He designs intelligent systems and optimizes manufacturing processes through Digital Twins (DT). He designs robotic grippers to enhance the graspability of objects in different tasks and scenarios. Dr. Amr M. El-Sayed Ahmed is also an Assistant Professor in Mechatronics and Robotics at the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt. He… [Read more]

Dr Meysam Zareiee joined Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management, the University of Strathclyde, as a Research Associate in Collaborative Robotics, working on the UKRI EPSRC Made Smarter Innovation - Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial Robotics. Meysam holds a Ph.D.in electrical engineering. He has over a decade of teaching experience at various universities, including Damghan University in Iran, where he served as an Associate Professor. His research interests encompass Petri nets, discrete event and manufacturing systems, supervisory control theory, and the modeling of semiconductor devices. Meysam's work has been recognized with several awards and he has published extensively… [Read more]

Baixiang is a Research Associate working within the field of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management [Read more]

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]