BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Professor of Bioenergy & Self - Sustainable Systems

Bio: Ioannis Ieropoulos is a Professor of Bioenergy & Self-Sustainable Systems and Director of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE. He has an interest in waste utilisation and energy autonomy and produced the EcoBot family of robots, powered by microbial fuel cells (MFCs) fed on organic waste; the latest example is Row-bot. He leads a Gates Foundation funded program, developing MFCs for sanitation, looking also into biodegradable materials. He has published >90 peer reviewed journal papers, generated >£7M of research income in the last 8 years and is frequently invited at international conferences, such as ECS. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, a reviewer for the EU and numerous scientific Journals and the Section Editor for SETA (Elsevier).