Dr Lauren E. J. Thomas-Seale MEng, PhD, AMIMechE

Lecturer in Design Engineering

• Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Distinction, University of Birmingham, 2019
• PhD in Bioengineering, University of Edinburgh, 2015
• 1^st Class MEng (Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Bristol, 2007

Dr Lauren E. J. Thomas-Seale qualified with a First Class MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Bristol in 2007. Lauren’s undergraduate research specialism was aerodynamics. Upon graduating, Lauren worked as a design engineer in the consultancy Goshawk Aerospace. Lauren graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2015 with a PhD in Bioengineering. Her doctoral thesis research entitled “The Application of Magnetic Resonance Elastography to Atherosclerosis” was conducted across the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, School of Engineering and Clinical Research Imaging Centre. 

In 2015 Lauren joined the Biomedical Engineering Group at the University of Birmingham as a research fellow in design for additive manufacture. Lauren won a Developing Leaders Award in 2016 to undertake a secondment at the Manufacturing Technology Centre. 

Lauren was appointed as a Lecturer in Design Engineering in the School of Engineering, University of Birmingham in 2017. She teaches on the second year module, Mechanical Design A. 

Lauren’s research interests are highly interdisciplinary, encompassing cardiovascular science, developmental biology, imaging, elastography, bioengineering, design and additive manufacture.

Mechanical Engineering

• Mechanical Design A

Lauren Thomas-Seale supervises PhDs in the following areas:

• Biomedical Engineering 
• Additive Manufacture 
• Design
• Elastography  

Lauren’s research into design for additive manufacture encompasses the broad spectrum design; from conceptual through to detailed. Thus her interests span design in the context of innovation, materials, software, optimisation and manufacture. She is particularly interested in integrating concepts drawn from developmental biology into design and additive manufacture to mirror the advanced efficiency and capabilities seen in nature. Lauren uses traditional and innovative design and additive manufacturing techniques to solve clinical and industrial problems.

Lauren also conducts research in the field of elastography, which facilitates the characterisation of tissue elasticity in-vivo. She is interested in developing elastography techniques that can be applied to the cardiovascular applications, underpinned by computational and experimental validation.

Dr Thomas-Seale is an advocate of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). She is the EDI lead for the School of Engineering, and represents the School on the College of  Engineering and Physical Sciences EDI committee.