Dana D. Damian

Contact

Automatic Control and System Engineering Department, University of Sheffield

Centre of Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare

Amy Johnson Bld, Portobello Ln, Sheffield, S1 3JD, UK

E: d.damian@sheffield.ac.uk | P: +44 (0)114 222 5632

Research Bio

Dana D. Damian is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield since 2015. She received her diploma in computer science and engineering from the Technical University Timisoara, Romania in 2007. In the same year she joined the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands, to work on her diploma thesis with Prof. Nicu Sebe and Prof. Mihai Micea. At the end of 2007, she became a PhD candidate at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Rolf Pfeifer, where she graduated with summa cum laude in 2012. In 2011 she was a Visiting Scholar for one year at the Haptics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US and at the Collaborative Haptics in Robotics and Medicine, Stanford University, U.S.A. working with Prof. Allison Okamura. In 2012 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Soft Machines Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A., working with Prof. Carmel Majidi. From 2013 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA, working with Prof. Pierre Dupont in the Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering Laboratory. Since 2011, she is also a founder of the Private Library "Damian" in Romania.

Awards

§ Cross-Sector Experience Award, in partnership with Sheffield Children's Hospital, PI, 2024

§ Best Innovation Paper Award, TAROS 2023

§ MRC Impact Accelerator Award (IAA), PI, 2023

§ UKRI New Horizons Award, PI, 2022

§ Best Paper in Medical Robotics Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020

§ EPSRC New Investigator Award, PI, 2019-2021

§ Finalist of the Katerva “Accelerating the Future” award in category of Materials, Resources and Water, 2017

§ Best conference paper award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2014

§ Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship, Advanced Postdoc Mobility (2014-2015)

§ Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researchers (2013)

§ Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researchers (2011)

§ Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Undergraduate Student Scholarship (2007)

§ Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (2006)

§ Politehnica Timisoara University - Merit Scholarship (2002-2007)