Dr. Lorenzo Conti is Founder & Managing Director of Crover Ltd, an Edinburgh-based startup which developed the world’s first ‘subterranean drone’ (i.e. a CROVER). Lorenzo is an Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds a PhD in Engineering from The University of Edinburgh (UoE), where he worked on granular rheology (the study of how granular matter flows) and discovered the ‘CROVER effect’. Before that, he completed an MEng in Civil Engineering at UoE and worked on construction projects in Italy, Switzerland, Germany.