About me

My name is Helmut Hauser. I am a Chair and Full Professor of Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation. I lead 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 nearly a 100 talks, including at the New Scientist Festival, which attracts 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 the BBC and I have been collaborating with top researcher worldwide, including those at Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, MIT, ETH Zürich, EPFL, the University of Tokyo, and many others.

If you want to know more about my academic accolades, please visit my research webpage.

Productivity

Besides my academic work, I am deeply passionate about productivity in academia. Since 2016, I have developed, improved and regularly delivered a half-day productivity workshop to support academics, ranging from PhD students to full professors. The feedback has been consistently outstanding.

I have also created a more comprehensive productivity course, spanning five months, designed specifically to help assistant professors build healthy, sustainable productivity habits [link]. For this, I secured funding from Research England to successfully launch it as a university-wide pilot in 2023, which proved highly successful. The course is now being integrated as a regular offering at the University of Bristol.

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