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Hareesh Godaba is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southampton and a member of the Bioengineering Science Research Group. His research focuses on developing soft robotic technologies aimed at enabling novel applications in healthcare. His expertise includes electroactive technologies such as dielectric elastomer artificial muscles, electroluminescent polymers, and electroadhesion. By combining soft advanced materials with bioinspiration, he develops robots and devices that address significant challenges in industry and medicine. He has previously held positions at the University of Sussex, contributing to the Centre for Robotics and Sensing Technologies, and conducted postdoctoral research at Queen Mary University of London through the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics, where he worked on sensing and actuation technologies for extreme environments. He completed his PhD at the National University of Singapore in 2018, where he developed soft electroactive muscles and self-healing displays for soft robots. His work has been published in reputable journals such as Nature Materials and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and has gained media coverage from outlets like Reuters.