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SoPD Research

10 September 2025

Research at our School of Product Design department has received consistent national and international recognition for its high quality and breadth of focus. Learn more about SoPD research at UC.

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Agentic AI (Tham Piumsomboon, Simon Hoermann)
AI Companions (Tham PiumsomboonSimon Hoermann)
Artificial Intelligence (Simon Hoermann, Adrian Clark, Tham Piumsomboon)
AI Ethics (Tham Piumsomboon)
AI Governance (Tham Piumsomboon)
Generative AI (Tham Piumsomboon, Adrian Clark)
Human Agent Interaction (Tham PiumsomboonSimon Hoermann)
Human-AI Interaction (Tham Piumsomboon, Wendy Zhang)
Intelligent User Interfaces (Simon HoermannTham PiumsomboonWendy Zhang)
Perception AI & Computer Vision (Adrian Clark, Tham Piumsomboon)
Physical AI (Tham Piumsomboon)

Design Cognition (Wendy Zhang)
Visualisation Tools and Technologies (Wendy Zhang)

AI for Health (Tham Piumsomboon)
Digital Healthcare (Simon Hoermann)
Health Technologies (Simon Hoermann)
Mental Health (Simon Hoermann, Tham Piumsomboon, Wendy Zhang)
Neurorehabilitation (Simon Hoermann)
Virtual Rehabilitation (Simon Hoermann)

Aesthetics of Interactions (Bahareh Shahri)
Brain-Computer Interface (Tham Piumsomboon)
Design History (Bahareh Shahri)
Design Methodologies (Bahareh Shahri)
Human-centred design (Bahareh Shahri, Tham Piumsomboon, Wendy Zhang)
Playful interaction in Product Design (Bahareh Shahri)
Social and cultural aspects of product design (Bahareh Shahri)

Applied & Serious Game Design (Simon Hoermann)
Game User Research (Simon Hoermann)
Human–Computer Interaction (Tham Piumsomboon, Simon Hoermann, Adrian Clark)
Immersive Training & Learning Environments (Simon HoermannTham Piumsomboon)
User Behavioural Design (Tham Piumsomboon, Simon Hoermann, Wendy Zhang, Bahareh Shahri)
User Experience Design (Simon Hoermann, Tham Piumsomboon, Wendy Zhang)

Augmented Reality (Adrian Clark, Tham Piumsomboon)
Extended Reality and Mixed Reality (Tham Piumsomboon, Simon Hoermann)
Immersive Game Design (Tham Piumsomboon)
Virtual Reality (Tham PiumsomboonSimon HoermannWendy Zhang)

3D printing functional materials (Hossein Najaf Zadeh)
Additive manufacturing/3D printing of bio-based materials (Hossein Najaf Zadeh)
Bacterial communities involved in degradation of bioplastics (Ali Reza Nazmi)
Biocomposites (Hossein Najaf Zadeh)
Biocomposites and their perception (Ali Reza Nazmi, Nick Emerson)
Biofabrication of water treatment media (Hossein Najaf Zadeh)
Biomimetics in product design (Hossein Najaf Zadeh)
Novel usage of 3D printing (Ali Reza Nazmi)
Sustainable design and recycling (Hossein Najaf Zadeh)
Sustainable product development (Ali Reza Nazmi)

Developing platforms for biotech research in microgravity (Sarah Kessans)
Experimental design for biological research on space stations (Sarah Kessans)
Protein crystallisation in microgravity (Sarah Kessans)

Characterisation of fungal natural products (Sarah Kessans)
Fungal biosynthesis of methane inhibitors (Sarah Kessans)
Fungal strain engineering (Sarah Kessans)

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