Dr Marta Romeo is an Assistant Professor and Bicentennial Research Leader in Human-Robot Interaction at the Computer Science department in the School of MACS (Mathematical and Computer Sciences) at Heriot-Watt University. She is affiliated with the National Robotarium and she co-leads the “Safe and Secure AI for Robotics Theme”. She earned her PhD from the University of Manchester on human-robot interaction and deep learning for companionship in elderly care, working on the H2020 Project MoveCare. She then stayed at the University of Manchester as a postdoc working for the UKRI Node on Trust, investigating how trust in human-robot interactions is built, maintained and recovered when lost. After moving to Heriot-Watt she became a Co-I on the Node until the end of the project. She is the co-PI of the the Royal Society of Edinburgh Spring Joint project “Are nurses ready for robots? Understanding the technological literacy needs of nursing students”. Her research focuses on developing socially intelligent robots, able to adapt to their users with the aim to increase safety, acceptability and usability. She is interested in human-robot interaction, failures and repairs in interactions between humans and robots, and in the multidisciplinary work needed to discuss robotics as a socio-technical problem.
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