Team leader
Sabine Hauert is 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 40M 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. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Open Source Robotics Foundation. 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 executive trustee of the Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence AIhub.org, a non-profit dedicated to providing free, high-quality information, direct from AI and robotics experts, through AIhub.org and Robohub.org.
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.
Johanna Blee
Modelling and control of heterogeneous bacterial collectives using light.
Computational modelling of brain-tumour biomarkers.
Georgios Tzoumas
Co-supervisor: Tom Richardson
Swarming drones for firefighting.
Henry Hickson
Co-supervisor: Alex Mavromatis
Hive mind networks to power decentralised swarm behaviours.
PhD Candidates
Yinan Shi
Co-supervisors: Tom Richardson
Swarms for large-scale firefighting.
Xiaotao Shan
Co-supervisors: Eddie Wilson
Multi-agent warehouse intralogistics.
Chayada (Dear) Thidrasamee
Co-supervisors: Lucy Berthoud
Large-scale solar space station assembly.
Jayden Hewlett
Co-supervisor: Antonia Tzemanaki
Swarm-based diagnostic palpation.
Yuxuan Yuan
Co-supervisor: Jonathan Lawry
Meta Consensus in robot swarms.
Iris Underhill
Co-supervisors: Rich Pancost, Casey Bryce
Robot swarms for space cave exploration.
Nitirak (Fern) Rayabphand
Co-supervisor: Dandan Zhang
Control of magnetic nanoswarms for biomedical applications.
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.
Communication Team
Ella Scallan
Helps community work done in the Hauert team.
ALUMNI
Research associates
Sara Carreira
David Garzon Ramos
Jack Phillips
Namid Stillman
Scott McCormick
Edmund Hunt
James Wilson
Elliott Scott
Alex McConville
Ana Rubio Denniss
Lucio Salinas
Neshika Wijewardhane
PhD Students
Elliott Scott
Suet Lee
Natalie Morris
Julian Hird
Matthew Uppington
Emma Milner
Ana Rubio Denniss
Matthew Hockley
Daniel Carrillo Zapata
Laura Gemmell
Merihan Alhafnawi
Elliott Hogg
Khulud Alharthi