I am an Associate Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College. My research sits at the intersection of mechanics, materials, and robotics, where I study how soft and adaptive systems can sense, move, and reconfigure themselves - what I like to call robotic matter.

I trained as a mechanical engineer at Imperial College London, where I completed a PhD in Computational Mechanics, followed by postdoctoral work in neuroscience and signal processing. That interdisciplinary experience led me to explore how ideas from biology and brain science can inspire new forms of intelligent materials. I later joined Harvard University as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Harvard Fellow in Applied Mechanics, working on soft robotic systems that can operate without electronics by exploiting the physics of fluids and elasticity.

Before moving to Oxford in 2025, I was an Associate Professor at King’s College London, where I founded the Reconfigurable and Adaptive Designs Laboratory (RADlab). At Oxford, I continue this work within the Solid Mechanics Group, developing programmable materials and robotic systems that blur the line between machines and matter.

At Pembroke, I teach undergraduate tutorials in solid and structural mechanics. I love helping students see that mechanics is not just about equations—it’s about understanding how materials behave and how that behaviour can be harnessed creatively. For me, engineering is both a science and an art: a way to reveal and reimagine the hidden intelligence of the physical world.