Previous post-doctoral research staff

  • Dongxiao Hong — working on uncertainty quantification in hybrid testing and more generally for nonlinear systems funded as part of the EPSRC Programme Grant “Digital twins for improved dynamic design” (May 2022 until July 2023). Went onto a research associate position at Imperial College London.
  • Sandor Beregi — working on control-based continuation and SciML funded as part of the EPSRC Responsive-Mode Grant “Next-generation test methods for nonlinear structures” and, subsequently, by the EPSRC Programme Grant “Digital twins for improved dynamic design” (May 2019 until January 2023). Went onto a research associate position at Imperial College London.
  • Alessandra Vizzaccaro — working on hybrid testing with uncertainty as part of the EPSRC Programme Grant “Digital twins for improved dynamic design” (November 2020 until December 2022). Went onto a research associate position at the University of Exeter.
  • Ludovic Renson — worked on control theory and related aspects control-based continuation (September 2014 until August 2019). Went on to a lectureship at Imperial College.
  • Irene Tartaruga — worked on control-based continuation as part of the EPSRC Responsive-Mode Grant “Next-generation test methods for nonlinear structures” (May 2017 to December 2018). Went on to work as a Loads and Aerodynamics Engineer at Stirling Dynamics.

Previous doctoral research students

  • Lizzie Stone — Feeling the way: creating versatile tactile robots through online learning for edge following (awarded PhD 23 January 2024).
  • Kyoung Hyun Lee — Bifurcation-based ordinary differential equation model identification (awarded PhD 24 January 2023). Went on to a research associate position at the University of Auckland.
  • Kirsty Aquilina — Tactile perception and control of a soft shear-sensitive optical tactile sensor (awarded PhD 24 June 2021). Went on to work as a data scientist at Aptiv (autonomous driving systems).
  • Adam Zienkiewicz — Data-driven modelling of zebrafish locomotion and collective behaviour (awarded PhD 10 May 2016). Went on to work as a Robotics Engineer at Dyson.
  • Dan Hewitt — Detecting freeplay in mechanical systems (awarded PhD 10 May 2016). Went on to work as a Research Engineer at MASS.
  • Andrea Cammarano — Increasing the bandwidth of resonant vibration-based energy harvesters (awarded PhD 8 January 2013). Went on to a lectureship at the University of Glasgow.