Iwan Roberts

Iwan is a Rosetrees Trust Enterprise Fellow in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. With a multidisciplinary background, Iwan completed a MPhys Physics degree at Durham University followed by a PhD in the EPSRC MRC CDT for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Manchester focussing on tissue engineering of contractile tissues. His current research focusses on the development of 3D printed artificial cochlea to study the electrical properties of cochlear implant stimulation as well as the mechanical properties of insertion to improve cochlear implant machine-neural interfacing and reduce insertion trauma, respectively. Furthermore, his research also involves finite element modelling, neural cell culture on microelectrode arrays, study of fibrosis on electrode implants, and developing novel health monitoring wearable technologies.