Funded Projects

An overview of current and past research projects, funded by European and UKRI grants.

Ongoing

EPSRC AI Hub

Project: AI For Chemistry (AIChemy)
Website: Award Announcement
Funded Period: 2024 - 2029
Funding Body: UKRI
Role: Co-I
Research Topic: AI/Robotics for Chemistry

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship

Project: Upskilling robotic scientists for long-term laboratory workflows
Website: https://raeng.org.uk/
Funded Period: 2023 - 2028
Funding Body: Royal Academy of Engineering
Role: PI
Research Topic: Robot Learning for Laboratory Environments

ERC Synergy ADAM

Project: Autonomous Discovery of Advanced Materials
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/856405
Funded Period: 2021 - 2026
Funding Body: ERC
Role: Collaborator
Research Topic: Autononous (Mobile) Manipulation for Chemistry Laboratories

Completed

EPSRC NCNR RAI Hub

Project: National Centre for Nuclear Robotics
Website: https://www.ncnr.org.uk/
Funded Period: 2019 - 2021
Funding Body: UKRI
Role: Researcher
Research Topic: Physics-guided Robot Learning in Nuclear Environments

EU H2020 MSCA DCOMM

Project: DCOMM
Website: http://www.dcomm.eu/
Funded Period: 2016 - 2019
Funding Body: EU H2020 MSCA ITN
Role: Marie Sklodowska Curie - Early Stage Researcher
Research Topic: From Single Words to Compositional Language - Application in Robot Language Learning

ENDEAVOUR Scheme

Project: Endeavour Scholarship Scheme
Funded Period: 2015 - 2016
Funding Body: Part-financed by the European Union Operational Programme II – Cohesion Policy 2014 – 2020
Role: Student/Researcher
Research Topic: Automatic Adaptation of Gains in the Computed Torque Model of a Robot Manipulator