Thomas is founder and Head of the Cyber-Human Lab at the University of Cambridge. The lab focuses on how human abilities can be amplified with technologies to improve human performance in industrial contexts. The lab’s team works with a wide range of technology prototypes and emerging digital technologies, including virtual and augmented reality, smart exoskeletons, sensors and vision-based activity recognition. The lab’s team blends these technologies with human skills into cyber-human systems and uses an experimental approach to understand and optimise the performance of these systems.

Thomas holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, an MPhil from Cambridge’s Judge Business School, and an MLitt from the University of St Andrews. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and has held positions at RWTH Aachen University and University of Auckland, as well as in several companies. He is currently co-founder, Senior Treasurer and Executive Committee member of the Cambridge University VR / AR Society; and Senior Treasurer and Executive Committee member of the Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC).

Read more about Thomas on his University of Cambridge profile here.

Project Supervision

Primary Supervisor

Cohort 3 Student Paul-David Zurcher, on their PhD project titled ‘Low-cost interactive systems to optimise operator performance in the agri-food industry’.

Secondary Supervisor:

Cohort 3 Student Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma, who is working with Berry Gardens, on their PhD project titled ‘Human sensing based on affordable sensors for collaborative robotics in agricultural scenarios’.