Prof Christos Bergeles received his Ph.D. degree in Robotics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, and the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College, United Kingdom. As a Professor at King’s College London, he directs the “Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab” whose mission is to develop micro-surgical robots that deliver regenerative therapies deep inside the human body. Prof Bergeles has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2017 – 2023) and, among others, holds i4i NIHR funding (2017 – 2020, 2022 – 2025) for the development of instrumentation that delivers stem cells to diseased retinal layers. His active grant funding as PI is £2.5M. He has co-authored more than 100 articles in top-tier conferences and journals, and his research has been cited more than 3000 times. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and the IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation. His team and he are very active in public engagement and patient involvement activities, with examples including New Scientist Live (2019, 2023, 10,000+ participants), and Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (2023, 10,000+ participants). He is an IEEE Senior Member.

Research Interests

Image-Guided Surgical Robotics