Kiana Abolfathi is a PhD student at the University of Essex. She studied M.Sc. in mechanical engineering University of Tehran (Iran). She received her B.Eng. degree from Sharif University of Technology (Iran) in 2018. Her graduate research focuses on developing a swarm of micro/nano-robots for medical applications.  She is developing a platform for Studies of Different Swarm Modes for Magnetic Nanoparticles.

Benjamin W Jarvis is a PhD student at the university of Essex. He received his BEng in Computer Science from the University of York (UK) in 2019, and his dissertation was investigating the effects of different time encodings on a third generation spiking neural network. His PhD research focuses on modeling and implementation of swarm robotics in the medical applications. 

Dr Alireza Mousavi is a visiting researcher at the University of Essex. He received his PhD from the School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2022. He is currently working on the development of intelligent control methods for microrobotic manipulation systems. His research interests include adaptive fuzzy sliding-mode control of nonlinear systems, consensus control of multi-agent dynamical systems, reinforcement learning-based control, and Robotics.