Dr Digby Chappell
Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Tutorial Fellow
Email: digby.chappell@eng.ox.ac.uk
Website: https://digbychappell.github.io/
Academic background
Before joining Oxford in 2026, Digby was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he worked on wearable technology for rehabilitation of individuals post stroke. Digby received his PhD from Imperial College London, where his thesis focused on “Improving Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand Control via a Multifaceted, User-Centred Approach”, and his MEng degree from the University of Cambridge, where his final year project investigated “Wearable Muscle Activity Sensors”.
Teaching
Undergraduate: Engineering Science
Research interests
Robotics, Prosthetics and Exoskeletons, Wearable Technology, Human Machine Interfaces
Recent Publications
A full list of publications is available on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8L9IY_MAAAAJ&hl=en