Dr Efi Psomopoulou is Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology at the University of Bristol and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. She investigates and controls the physical interactions of robots with the environment in unstructured scenarios by focusing on stable grasping and dexterous in-hand manipulation using tactile sensing. She has also worked on building underactuated robot hands, on control of variable stiffness joint robots and haptic feedback during minimally invasive surgery. She is the Bristol PI in the Royal Society International Collaboration with Kyungpook National University in South Korea through a £250k award. She is the Bristol PI in a £1.5M ARIA Robot Dexterity project and the Bristol co-I in the £7M Horizon Europe MANiBOT project. She is committee co-chair of the IEEE RAS Women in Engineering and elected member of the UK-RAS Network's Early Career Forum.