Who’s Who in the Hunt Lab
Dr Edmund Hunt aims to build swarms of robots that can deliver useful performance for human users, especially in environmental monitoring applications. Since 2021, he has been a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, a Lecturer in Robotics since 2024 and a Senior Lecturer since 2025.
His 2016 PhD in complexity sciences (which received a Faculty of Sciences Commendation) was focused on collective animal behaviour. This is the real-world foundation for swarm engineering, and for us bioinspiration is second nature.
Further information is available on Dr Hunt’s Bristol University webpage.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Mir Lodro
2026 (radio sensing robots)
Alumni
Dr Nicola Webb (2024-26)
Dr Mehdi Sobhani (2023-24)
PhD students
PhD graduates
Dr James Ward (2022-25)
Co-supervisor: Dr Ryan McConville and then Prof Arthur Richards
Gjosse Zijlstra (2022-26)
Co-supervisor: Prof Karen Aplin
Pending corrections
Connor York (2022-26)
Co-supervisor: Dr Paul O’Dowd
Pending viva
Past MSc and MEng students
2025/26
Dennis Joshua Lee (MSc Robotics), Yixuan Chu (MSc Biorobotics), Jack Kendall (MEng Engineering Mathematics)
2024/25
I was the dissertation unit director for MSc robotics programmes and so had oversight of 209 student dissertations (supervisor allocation, marking)
2023/24
Alex Bott (MEng Engineering Mathematics), Jay Hamill (MScR Robotics), Zijun Huang (MSc Robotics), Irin Sajjawong (MSc Biorobotics), Ning Zhou (MSc Engineering Mathematics)
2022/23
This year I supervised group projects on the Applied Data Science unit
2021/22
Bashayer Alahmadi (MSc Robotics)
2020/21
Will Paterson (MEng Engineering Mathematics), Courtney Hu (MSc Robotics), Houlin Qi (MSc Robotics), James Fielding* (MSc Robotics)
2019/20
Aswath Ganesan Indra (MSc Robotics), Mohanned Shahin (MSc Shahin), Conor Cullen* (MEng Engineering Mathematics),
2018/19
Imogen Taylor* (MSc Engineering Mathematics), George Jenkinson* (MSc Robotics), Qi Su (MSc Robotics), Xinyu Zhu (MSc Robotics)
2017/18
Taegyun Ha* (MSc Robotics)
*Dr Sabine Hauert co-supervisor