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Professor Netta Cohen

Professor Netta Cohen

Responsibilities

  • Lead, Computing in Biology, Medicine and Health theme
  • School Equality and Inclusion champion
  • Executive team member, Robotics@Leeds

Research interests

Complex systems, computational neuroscience, neural control of behaviour, biological physics and biomechanics, biorobotics and bio-inspired control (with applications to infrastructure robotics), C. elegans neurobiology, neural circuits and behaviour.

Recent Grants:
- WHole Animal Modelling (WHAM): Toward the integrated understanding of sensory motor control in C. elegans, Funding: EPSRC, Role: EPSRC Leadership Fellowship (PI)

- National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems, Funding: EPSRC, Role: Co-I

- Microswimmers: Analysing the motion of biological swimmers (with David Hogg and Thomas Ranner; Funding: EP/S01540X/1): http://leeds.wormlab.eu/

Current funded projects:

- Pipebots: Pervasive Sensing for Buried Pipes (Co-I Programme Grant; Funding:  EP/S016813/1): http://pipebots.ac.uk/

- Self Repairing Cities: Balancing the impact of city infrastructure engineering on natural systems using robots: (Co-I Grand Challenge project; Funding: EP/N010523/1): https://selfrepairingcities.com/ 

- New AD model (co-I, with Patricija van-Oosten Hawle; Funding: NC3R): http://www.vanoostenhawlelab.com/

- Towards the formulation of a general theory of root gravitropism Towards the formulation of a general theory of root gravitropism (co-I with Stefan Kepinski, Funding: Leverhulme Trust)

 

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Research groups and institutes

  • Computing in Biology, Medicine and Health
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Science and Engineering
  • Robotics

Current postgraduate researchers

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>
Projects
    <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/717-3d-microscopy-of-swimming-worms">3D microscopy of swimming worms</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/718-modelling-dynamics-of-swimming-in-3d">Modelling dynamics of swimming in 3D</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/716-modelling-the-neural-control-of-locomotion">Modelling the neural control of locomotion</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1861-the-neuromechanical-basis-of-locomotion-in-3d">The neuromechanical basis of locomotion in 3D</a></li>