Stoyan Smoukov is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and led the Active & Intelligent Materials lab since 2012 at the University of Cambridge. He has published more than 70 journal papers, cited over 2100 times, with H-index of 22, co-founded a startup company for producing nanofibers, and is leading the work on a number of European projects and industrial collaborations. His current research interests are focused on the fundamentals of confinement, multi-responsive materials, as well as geometry and processing technologies for achieving responsiveness. The longer term goal is to create autonomous material robotics, where the materials themselves are the robots.
Autonomous Material Robotics, Self-sensing materials, Artificial morphogenesis