Dr Efi Psomopoulou is Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology at the University of Bristol and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

She originally trained as an Electrical and Computer Engineer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, followed by a PhD in Robot Grasping and Human-to-Robot Handovers. After four years of postdoctoral research in Medical and Tactile Robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, she was appointed Lecturer at the University of Bristol in 2022 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2025. She is also a professional violinist and has played in and led several symphony orchestras - she currently plays in the Bristol Symphony Orchestra.

In 2024, she was awarded a Royal Society International Collaboration with Kyungpook National University in South Korea on "MultiTip: Advancing Robot Dexterity with Multimodal Tactile Sensing" (2024-27). In 2025, she was awarded an ARIA Robot Dexterity project in collaboration with US-based company Artimus Robotics on "Realizing the Future of Dexterous Robotics with Flexible Electrohydraulic Artificial Muscles" (2025-28). She is also the Bristol co-I in the £7M Horizon Europe project "MANiBOT: Advancing roBOTs towards human-like bi-manual object MANipulation" (2023-27).

She is committee co-chair of the IEEE RAS Women in Engineering (WiE) and editor of the WiE column in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.