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Christos Bergeles received his Ph.D. in Robotics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011 and has extensive postdoctoral experience at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is currently a Professor at King’s College London, where he leads the Robotics Vision Medicine Lab, focusing on developing micro-surgical robots for delivering regenerative therapies deep within the human body. Bergeles has been awarded the ERC Starting Grant for the period of 2017 to 2023 and has received i4i NIHR funding from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2025 for the development of instrumentation that delivers stem cells to diseased retinal layers. His research output includes over 100 articles in top-tier conferences and journals, with citations exceeding 3000. As an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, he actively contributes to the academic community. Bergeles participates in various public engagement initiatives to involve patients in the research process and has presented his work at significant events like the New Scientist Live and the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
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