CATCH student presents at prestigious conference

A student supervised by CATCH Academic Dana Damian, presented a research paper at an international conference last week. 

Alex Thorn, a MEng student from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE) at the University presented at the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) conference which was held at the University of Surrey. There, he presented an oral paper on creating a phantom variable stiffness tissue, innovative research into creating artificial tissue for testing medical robotics.

Researcher Dr Rebecca Palmer wins Verna Wright Prize from The Society for Research in Rehabilitation (SRR)

Congratulations to CATCH researcher Dr Rebecca Palmer who last month was awarded the Verna Wright Prize for best oral presentation 2016 for 'What do People with Aphasia want to be Able to Say?'.