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Duncan Shepherd is Postgraduate Dean and Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

Duncan has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters in the field of Bio-medical Engineering, mainly on the design and testing of medical devices.  He has received major grants from the Commission of the European Communities, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the ...

Dr Adel Abdel-Wahab is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering within the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering.

Dr Abdel-Wahab was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University, UK, in 2011. His research interests span a broad range of areas in mechanical engineering and focus largely on experimental studies and numerical simulations of the ...

Dr Ziyun Ding is a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering.

She has broad interests in the field of computational biomechanics, focusing on the in-vivo and in-silicostudies of human locomotion, anatomy, and musculoskeletal system, in order to improve the understanding of mechanical functions underlying the musculoskeletal injury and disease. Her most recent ...

Daniel is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, and is both a Chartered Biologist and a Chartered Engineer.

Daniel has published around 80 peer-reviewed journal papers and a book chapter in the field of Biomedical Engineering, focusing primarily on connective tissues across the body. He has received funding from EPSRC, the EU and the British Heart Foundation. He has been invited to ...

Dr Nan Gao is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Dr Gao’s research fields are primarily focused on wetting phenomena and anti-biofouling surfaces. His research covers both fundamental aspects and industrial applications. Dr Gao’s research outcomes have been in leading journals including Nature Physics, Science Advances, Advances in Colloid and ...

Inspired by the workings of nature, Dr Malboubi applies the principles of mechanics and design micro-tools to unravel the physics underlying cellular processes and to understand how cells interact with their surroundings.

Dr Malboubi completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham and worked on the interaction of biological membranes with solid substrates, and published several articles on ...

Dr Lauren Thomas-Seale is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering. 

Lauren has highly interdisciplinary interest’s focussed on but not exclusive to design, additive manufacture and elastography. Within the School of Engineering Lauren’s research is aligned with the Biomedical Engineering Research Group and the Manufacturing ...

Dr Yueting Sun is an Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Yueting has a multi-disciplinary experience, starting from vehicle crash safety and moving towards nanoporous materials in his current research.

By working at the boundary of engineering, chemistry, and physics, he combines impact mechanics, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and nanofluidics to pioneer the field of dynamic ...