Mar 2025
UC2 Lab joins MSCA-DN BRAINET and MSCA-DN QUESTING to advance distributed neural interfaces and quantum networks — 3 funded doctoral positions now open.
Biocomputing for Biomedical Technologies
Dr Michael Taynnan Barros
Dr Michael T. Barros is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in AI in Medicine at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex. He leads the Unconventional Communications and Computing Laboratory (UC2), where synthetic biology, bioprinting, and computational intelligence converge to create living systems that sense, compute, and heal.
His team’s work is supported by competitive funding from the European Commission, Innovate UK, UKRI BBSRC, Enterprise Ireland, and other agencies. Dr Barros serves on the BBSRC Engineering Biology and EPSRC peer-review colleges, and co-leads the Alan Turing Institute’s Learning the Organisational Principles of Living Systems interest group.
- UC2 Laboratory — cross-disciplinary biohybrid intelligence hub
- Principal Investigator on €2M+ Horizon Europe & UKRI programmes
- 53 journal articles (39 Q1), h-index 22, 1,300+ citations
- Emerging leader in molecular communications for biological intelligence
