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Hybrid Dynamical Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems; Sharing Economy; and Smart Mobility/Cities

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Marco Aurisicchio's current research activity focuses on using new design and manufacturing methods to develop complex systems in the healthcare, construction and nuclear sectors.

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Weston Baxter’s current research activity focuses on creating meaningful user experiences particularly as they relate to changing contexts in design.

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David’s research centres around Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things. This covers a variety of topics, including: designing reliable, secure, energy efficient wireless communication systems and energy transfer. 

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Rafael Calvo is interested in the design of systems that support wellbeing in areas of mental health, medicine and education, and the ethical challenges raised by new technologies.

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Michel-Alexandre’s research focuses on the development and evaluation of new computer aided methodologies to support the design of engineering systems under uncertainty, with applications in infrastructure and financial systems.

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Peter Cheung’s research focus is in digital reconfigurable systems; VLSI architecture; system reliability and embedded system design.  He currently teaches the electronics modules in Years 1 and 2 in Design Engineering.

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Peter Childs' general interests include: creativity; the application of creativity tools; mechanical and product design; robotics; rotating flow, temperature and its measurement, sustainable energy component, concept and system design.

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Sam Cooper’s research interests include the design and analysis of energy storage systems both at the microscale, as well as at the device level. He is also experience in the use of machine learning algorithms for the analysis of 3D image data.

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Pelin Demirel is a Reader in Innovation and Sustainability at Dyson School of Design Engineering, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. Her most recent research projects are motivated by investigating the potential of innovations and entrepreneurship for a more sustainable and inclusive society.

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Sebastian Deterding works on motivational design for well-being and behaviour change, focusing translational research, design methods, computational models and design tools, ecological and Bayesian approaches, games and playful design, and curiosity.

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Elena’s research focuses on the circular economy, sustainable material innovation and waste resource conversion, with notable contributions to developing novel materials from agricultural by-products. Elena also serves as Director of the MSc Cleantech Innovation programme.

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Pietro Ferraro’s work focuses on Cyber physical systems, Control theory, Smart grid, Smart cities and mathematical modelling of Distributed Ledger Technologies.

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Dr Chandramohan George is an Associate Professor leading the sub-theme “smart energy technologies and materials”. His Research Group is focused on materials design and manufacturing, solar batteries, soft batteries, beyond Li ion technologies and smart devices.

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Mazdak Ghajari's research focuses on understanding biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and designing advanced protective devices.

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Petar Kormushev's research interests include robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His main research focus is on robot learning algorithms, especially reinforcement learning for intelligent robot behaviour.

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Nan Li’s research addresses one of the major challenges facing the transportation industry world-wide: the development of breakthrough technologies to manufacture and design high-performance lightweight vehicles for a more environmentally-friendly footprint.

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Andrew McPherson's research on digital musical instrument design draws on embedded hardware, human-computer interaction, embodied cognition, and science and technology studies to create interactive systems and examine the values embedded into new technologies.

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Céline Mougenot specializes in Design Research. Her aim is to develop an understanding of “designing”, with a focus on creativity and collaboration.

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Connor Myant works on developing design methodologies specific to Additive Manufacturing, as well as developing novel 3D printing processes.

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Thrishantha's research in controllable stiffness robots tries to understand how physical circuits in the body and environment contribute to solve computational problems to do with efficient survival in unstructured environments.

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Lorenzo Picinali's work focuses on 3D binaural sound rendering, interactive applications for the blind, audiology and audiometric techniques, hearing aids technology, and audio and haptic interaction.

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Pierre is interested in generating optimal value for society and various stakeholders from data. He focuses on analytics, forecasting, optimization and game theory, mainly. Application areas include energy and sustainability, weather-sensitive industries, business analytics, logistics and retail, etc.

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Talya Porat's research is in the fields of human factors, human-computer interaction, usability and cognitive engineering. She is particularly interested in decision-making processes and how to design and evaluate effective interactive healthcare interventions to improve patient outcomes and reduce medical errors.

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Leila Sheldrick’s research explores the future of design, and aims to identify how to realise sustainable systems of consumption and production.

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Rebecca Stewart’s research interests are in wearable technology with a focus on binaural audio and textile interfaces. She is also investigating methods for enabling research innovations to be more accessible to applications designers.

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 Nejra van Zalk leads the  Design Psychology Lab , which focuses on understanding psychological mechanisms that govern human behaviour, emotions, and decision-making processes related to designing products, services, and behavioural interventions that benefit mental health. 

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Billy Wu works on improving and developing electrochemical devices (batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitor) as well as manufacturing processes (3D printing, electrospinning). 

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Yunlong Zhao’s research on the rational design and development of novel electrochemical energy storage devices, sensors, bioelectronics, and their integration into both 2D on-chip and 3D soft systems for electrochemical and physiological interrogation, and applications in Sustainability and Healthcare.