Team leader
Sabine Hauert is Reader (Associate Professor) of Swarm Engineering at the University of Bristol in the UK. Her research focusses on making swarms for people, and across scales, from nanorobots for cancer treatment, to larger robots for environmental monitoring, or logistics. Profoundly cross-disciplinary, Sabine works between Engineering Mathematics, the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, and Life Sciences. She’s PI or Co-I on more than 30M GBP in grant funding and has served on national and international committees, including the UK Robotics Growth Partnership, the Royal Society Working Group on Machine Learning and Data Community of Interest, and several IEEE boards. Before joining the University of Bristol, Sabine engineered swarms of nanoparticles for cancer treatment at MIT, and deployed swarms of flying robots at EPFL.
Sabine is also President and Co-founder of Robohub.org, and executive trustee of AIhub.org, two non-profits dedicated to connecting the robotics and AI communities to the public.
As an expert in science communication with 15 years of experience, Sabine is often invited to discuss the future of robotics and AI, including in the journals Science and Nature, at the European Parliament, and at the Royal Society. Her work has been featured in mainstream media including BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The Economist, TEDx, WIRED, and New Scientist.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Razanne Abu-Aisheh
Design of trustworthy swarms for intralogistics.
Simon Jones
Distributed situational awareness in industrial swarms.
Elliott Scott
Bio-inspired robot-fish shoals.
Robot swarms to image fluid dynamics in basking sharks.
Johanna Blee
Modelling and control of heterogeneous bacterial collectives using light.
Computational modelling of brain-tumour biomarkers.
Alex McConville
Human-swarm interaction for the monitoring and control of swarms of drones for firefighting.
Ana Rubio Denniss
Engineering swarm arenas for micro-nano systems.
Lucio Salinas
Swarm behaviours and interfaces to control swarms of drones for firefighting.
PhD Candidates
Khulud Alharthi
Co-supervisor: Zahraa Abdallah
Automatic extraction of swarm behaviours from video.
Franco Labia
Co-supervisors: Rich Pancost, Casey Bryce
Robot swarms for space cave exploration.
Natalie Morris
Co-supervisor: Johanna Blee
Computational models of snake bites and antivenoms.
Georgios Tzoumas
Co-supervisor: Tom Richardson
Swarming drones for firefighting.
Neshika Wijewardhane
Co-supervisors: Eugenia Piddini
Light-based wound healing.
Henry Hickson
Co-supervisor: Alex Mavromatis
Hive mind networks to power decentralised swarm behaviours.
Suet Lee
Fault detection and mitigation in robot swarms.
Nitirak (Fern) Rayabphand
Co-supervisor: Dandan Zhang
Control of magnetic nanoswarms for biomedical applications.
Matthew Uppington
Co-supervisors: Helmut Hauser
Light-based control of microswarm locomotion.
Julian Hird
Co-supervisor: Andrew Conn
Stochastic swarms for outdoor exploration.
Emma Milner
Co-supervisor: Manuel Giuliani
Swarm behaviours and metrics for intralogistics.
Matimba Swana
Co-supervisor: Jon Ives
Bioethics of first in-human trials of nanoswarms for cancer treatment.
Emma Valla
Co-supervisors: Ayalvadi Ganesh
Consensus formation in robot swarms.
Technical Team
Tom Didiot-Cook
Designs, builds, and maintains the robot swarms and helps us connect the swarms to users.
ALUMNI
Research associates
Sara Carreira
Jack Phillips
Namid Stillman
Scott McCormick
Edmund Hunt
James Wilson
PhD Students
Matthew Hockley
Daniel Carrillo Zapata
Laura Gemmell
Merihan Alhafnawi
Elliott Hogg