Dr Dana D. Damian
PhD
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Senior Lecturer
Full contact details
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Dana D. Damian received her diploma in computer science and engineering from the Technical University Timisoara, Romania in 2007. In the same year she joined the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to work on her diploma thesis with Prof. Nicu Sebe and Prof. Mihai Micea. At the end of 2007, she became a PhD candidate at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Rolf Pfeifer.
In 2011 she was a Visiting Scholar for one year at the Haptics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US and at the Collaborative Haptics in Robotics and Medicine, Stanford University, U.S.A. working with Prof. Allison Okamura. In 2012 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Soft Machines Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A., working with Prof. Carmel Majidi. From 2013 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA, working with Prof. Pierre Dupont in the Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering Laboratory. Since 2011, she is also a founder of the Private Library "Damian" in Romania.
- Research interests
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- Bionic & Assistive Robotics: Developing life-like, long-term operational systems for adaptive healthcare
- Physical Intelligence: Exploiting the computational interplay between material structures and mechanics
- Soft Robotics & Bioengineering: Designing flexible, biocompatible systems
- Embodied AI: Integrating artificial intelligence within physical robotic forms
- Medical & Biological Devices: Robotic implants
- Prosthetic wearables (tactile sensors and haptic devices)
- Plant prostheses
- Publications
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Journal articles
- A Soft Fluidic Sensor-Actuator for Active Sensing of Force and Displacement Applied to Tissue Probes and Implants. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 7(3), 1329-1340.
- Yeast-driven and bioimpedance-sensitive biohybrid soft robots. Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 6. View this article in WRRO
- A chemical reaction driven untethered volume changing robotic capsule for tissue dilation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 6(4), 1300-1308. View this article in WRRO
- Multimodal soft valve enables physical responsiveness for preemptive resilience of soft robots. Science Robotics, 9(92). View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- Transforming Origami Sculpture for Exhibition at Art Festival, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 293-303). Springer Nature Switzerland
Conference proceedings
- Pulsating fluidic sensor for sensing of location, pressure and contact area. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Proceedings (pp 7672-7678). Yokohama, Japan, 13 May 2024 - 13 May 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Thermally-activated biochemically-sustained reactor for soft fluidic actuation. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Proceedings (pp 7665-7671). Yokohama, Japan, 13 May 2024 - 13 May 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Development of an Untethered Inflatable Capsule Robot for Stricture Dilation - a Preliminary Study. Proceedings of The 15th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2023 (pp 105-106)
- A Soft Fluidic Sensor-Actuator for Active Sensing of Force and Displacement Applied to Tissue Probes and Implants. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 7(3), 1329-1340.
- Grants
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- A new treatment for short bowel syndrome using a soft-matter robotic implant – a preclinical study, MRC, 10/2023 - 09/2024, £174,943, as PI
- Tissue-RIMOTE: Tissue-Responsive Robotic Implants for In Vivo Mechanostimulation-Based Tissue Regeneration, EPSRC, 10/2019 - 08/2022, £260,698, as PI
- Swiss National Foundation, Advanced Postdoc Mobility, 2014-2015, P300P2_151248, sole applicant
- Swiss National Foundation, Prospective Researcher Fellowship, 2013, PBZHP2_143344, sole applicant
- Swiss National Foundation, Prospective Researcher Fellowship, 2011, PBZHP2-135917, sole applicant
- Swiss National Foundation, Dynamical Coupling in motor-sensory function substitution, 2010, #CR23I2_132702/1, co-applicant
- Teaching activities
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Module leader
- ACS231 Mechatronics
Also teaches on
- ACS6502 Mechatronics for Robotics
Guest lecturer
- Introduction to Bioengineering, University of Sheffield, Fall 2015
- Artificial Life course, University of Zurich, 2009
- Neural Networks course, University of Zurich, 2008
- Introduction to Robotics lecture, “Lucian Blaga National High School”, Sebes, Romania