Sanja is Professor of Medical Robotics and Research Director within the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering. Sanja has over 20 years of research experience in surgical and physical assistance robots, safe human-robot interaction and soft robotic structures and has led numerous EPSRC, EC, NIHR and Innovate UK projects as PI as well as establishing the medical robotics group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory before moving the the University of Sheffield in 2020. Sanja has been a member of the Executive Board since her arrival.