Organizers

This workshop aims to be a grassroots, bottom-up effort led by PhD students around the world. We have realised that roboticists need and can do more about the problem of climate change. As a result, we thought that now is the time to create a network of scientists who are passionate about using our technology and developing systems that can make a positive impact on climate. In this workshop, we will discuss what we have done so far to solve this problem and what more we can develop and work on for our impact to be greater! Join us!

Contact details

Khulud Alharthi, khulud.alharthi@bristol.ac.uk, University of Bristol
Madeleine Darbyshire, 25696989@students.lincoln.ac.uk, University of Lincoln

Yeman Fan, yeman.fan@student.uts.edu.au, University Technology Sydney

Andrea Giordano, andrea.giordano@empa.ch, Empa/Imperial College London
Fabian Wiesemüller, fabian.wiesemueller@empa.ch, Empa/Imperial College London

Franco Labia, franco.labia@bristol.ac.uk, University of Bristol

Laurence Roberts-Elliott, lrobertselliott@lincoln.ac.uk, University of Lincoln

Neshika Wijewardhane, neshika.wijewardhane@bristol.ac.uk ,University of Bristol

Matimba Swana, matimba.swana@bristol.ac.uk, University of Bristol

Avgi Stavrou, avgi.stavrou@bristol.ac.uk, University of Bristol

Georgios Tzoumas, georgios.tzoumas@bristol.ac.uk, University of Bristol

Organizers

Madeleine Darbyshire

Madeleine Darbyshire is a PhD student at the University of Lincoln researching detection and robotic systems for automated weeding applications.

Yeman Fan

Yeman is a final year PhD candidate at the Robotics Institute of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS: RI), under the supervision of Prof. Dikai Liu. He received his BEng degree in machine designing, manufacturing and automation, and MEng degree in agricultural electrification and automation from the Northwest A&F University. His research focuses on the design and control of variable stiffness continuum robots and manipulators.

Andrea Giordano

Currently, Andrea Giordano is a second year PhD student at the Aerial Robotics Laboratory of Imperial College London, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kovač. He is also visiting researcher at EMPA Dübendorf, Switzerland. He received his BSc at Politecnico di Torino, and his MSc at EPFL. He attended his master's thesis at METAS Bern, working on Computational Fluid Dynamics. Being passionate about fluid mechanics and flight dynamics, his research focuses on aerial aquatic locomotion and mission optimization to improve efficiency.

Fabian Wiesemüller

Fabian Wiesemüller is currently a PhD student at the Aerial Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, UK and the Laboratory for Sustainability Robotics at Empa, Switzerland. His research is focused on the development of various biodegradable technologies for transient robotic platforms that utilize sustainable sensing and actuation schemes. Previously, he received a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zürich, Switzerland in 2017 and 2019 respectively. During his studies he was active as project-manager, systems-engineer and coach for various extracurricular projects, including ARIS - a student association dedicated to developing experimental sounding rockets. His MSc thesis was conducted as a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena USA.

Laurence Roberts Elliott

Laurence Roberts-Elliott is a Computer Science PhD student at Lincoln Agri-Robotics, University of Lincoln. Supervised by Dr. Gautham Das and Dr. Alan Millard. He is investigating methods of multi-robot coordination and dynamic spatial sampling for efficient and accurate multi-robot soil properties mapping, to enable precision agricultural land management for improved crop yields and reduced environmental impacts. This work is enabled by his development of lightweight abstract simulations of multi-agent systems for rapid experimentation. He has collaborated on research projects at national and international scale including as a Research Assistant on Innovate UK's Robot Highways project, and as an MSc by Research student at the University of Lincoln on the EU Horizon 2020 ILIAD project, supervised by Prof. Marc Hanheide and Dr. Manuel Fernández-Carmona.

Franco Labia

Franco is a PhD researcher at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) developing cutting edge swarm robotics for detecting life in future space missions and supervised by world leading researchers. He is driven by my hope for a better and more sustainable future, and as a PhD student in a position to enact change, I can't just stand idly by. I'm fortunate enough to be supervised by Dr Sabine Hauert, Dr Casey Bryce, and Professor Rich Pancost, who all lead by example and inspire me to create more positive changes in the world around me. He is the founder and president of Space Pride, an organisation dedicated to bringing together the queer community in the international space sector. He is also the youngest committee member on the world's first sustainability in robotics standard at the British Standards Institution, representing the Bristol Robotics Laboratory on the committee.

Neshika Wijewardhane

Neshika has a BSc in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the University of Bristol and an MRes in Translational Cancer Medicine from King’s College London. Her undergraduate degree gave her a wide knowledge of cell and cancer biology as well as stem cell biology, genetics, infection and immunity. During her masters, she undertook two six-month research projects, the first titled “Can Extrusion Remove Senescent Epithelial Cells?” This entailed creating a protocol to transform cells senescent and imaging them with fluorescent and widefield live microscopy to capture their removal. The second project “Somatic Mutations of Cancer Driver Genes in Normal Tissues” was conducted in conjunction with The Francis Crick Institute.

Matimba Swana

Matimba is a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at University of Bristol. Matimba's research investigates cancer nanomedicine, swarm medicine, bioethics and the use of virtual tumours and patient twin models in clinical trials. Matimba is passionate about climate change in relation to human health, emerging technologies, medical ethics, global health and digital health disparities. Matimba currently sits on the Bristol cancer steering committee and is a trustee on the Executive Board at the Brain Tumour Charity. Matimba previously worked in stem cell research and clinical trials with a focus on phase 2 and 3 rare disease studies and digital healthcare.

Avgi Stavrou

Avgi is a PhD candidate, member of the FARSCOPE CDT program, at the University of Bristol and the University of West of England. Her research focuses on the cooperation and coordination of multi-agent systems. In particular, she focuses on the analysis of the dynamics of complex multi-agent systems and agents' learning mechanisms in environments with partial observability.

Khulud Alharthi

Khulud Alharthi is currently pursuing a PhD degree in swarm robotics at Sabine Hauert Lab, University of Bristol. Her PhD research focuses on developing a method to automatically extract understandable swarm controllers from video demonstrations. This enables the swarm engineer to understand, control, or translate swarm rules to new robots. Her primary research interests are in the fields of swarm engineering, machine learning, and collective intelligence. She received a B.Sc. degree (Hons.) and an M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in computer science. She is a faculty member (on study leave) at the College of Computers and Information Technology, at Taif University.

Georgios Tzoumas

Georgios is a PhD candidate at the university of Bristol in the UK working in Hauert Lab and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). His research focuses on control algorithms for swarms of uncrewed aerial aircraft. Specifically, he works with UAVs to identify and fight wildfires in large areas such as California. Being driven by a passion about sustainability and eco friendly actions Georgios' dream is for roboticists and people to start thinking how humanity can live in balance with our natural environment. He has started amongst other roboticist Proteas a team of robotic scientist who are eager to find like minded people to drive change.

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