I am a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering and Design and a core member of the Robotics and Mechatronics Systems Research Group at the University of Sussex . Until Novemebr 2020, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ) in Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) on the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR) Project developing sensing and actuation technologies for application to extreme environments. Prior to this, I was a Research Fellow in Advanced Sensotronics Lab in the National University of Singapore (NUS) where I developed stretchable and self-healing light sources for the next generation displays and soft robots. I received my Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2018 with my thesis focussing on the mechanics of dielectric elastomer actuators. My research has been published and highlighted in reputed venues such as Nature Materials, Soft Matter, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and has been covered in international media including Reuters (UK), Straits Times (Singapore) and the Deccan Chronicle (India).

At the University of Sussex, I am investigating the intersection of functional materials, applied mechanics and bioinspiration to develop intelligent soft robots and devices to tackle significant challenges in industrial and biomedical applications.

If you are interested in collaborating with us or joining our group, please feel free to get in touch.

For a comprehensive coverage of our previous work, watch the video of a talk I delivered recently:

Soft Materials Technologies for bioinspired robot: Dr. Hareesh, Univ of Sussex, UK

News. 01/07/2020. Three papers on 3d printed variable stiffness gripper (as first author), electronic skin for decoupling forces and strains, and control of eversion robot have been accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020. Congrats to all the contributors.

News. Our work on self-healing electroluminescent device has been published in Nature Materials.

A transparent, self-healing and high-κ dielectric for low-field-emission stretchable optoelectronics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-019-0548-4

Highlighted on Nature Materials News and Views : Lighting up soft robotics

Featured on Strait Times: New material may be answer to crack-proof phone display screens