About me

My name is Helmut Hauser. I am a Chair and Full Professor of Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation. I am leading the Morphological Computation Group at the University of Bristol. I am also the director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous and Robotic Systems: FARSCOPE with up to 65 parallel running PhD students and I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

I have published over 100 articles (Google Scholar) in highly prestigious journals including Science Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence and Cell Device. I have given close to 100 talks, including at the New Scientist Festival, which has over 40,000 visitors and I have won multiple awards for my talks. My work has been featured in media globally, including Forbes, Daily Mail, and BBC.

If you want to know more about my academic accolades, please have a look at my webpage.

Productivity

Besides my academic work, I am very passionate about productivity in academia. I have developed a half-day productivity workshop that I have been delivering regularly since 2016 to help academics (ranging from PhDs to Full Professors). The feedback has been consistently outstanding.

I have also developed a more in-depth productivity course that runs over 5 months to help specifically Assistant Professors acquire healthy and sustainable productivity habits [link]. For this, I acquired funding from Research England to run it successfully in 2023 as a university-wide pilot, which was highly successful. The course is now in the process of being implemented at the University of Bristol as a regular event.

If you are interested in me delivering one of my workshops at your university, department, or group, please reach out to me.