Academic staff

  • Dr Mazdak Ghajari

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    Reader in Brain Biomechanics

    Research interests

    Injury Biomechanics
    Computational Mechanics
    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Helmet Performance and Design

Research staff

  • Dr Claire Baker

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    Research Associate

    Research interests

    Autotriage in road traffic collisions
    Multibody dynamics modelling

  • Dr Lucas Low

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    Dr Lucas Low Research Associate

    Research interests

    Injury biomechanics
    Computational Human Body Modelling
    High rate mechanical testing of the spine

  • Dr Will Dawber

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    Research Associate

    Research interests

    Brain Injury Biomechanics
    Impact Mechanics and Simulation
    Product Development

  • Rachel Tan

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    Research Assistant

    Research interests

    Injury Biomechanics/Head Trauma
    Test Protocol Development
    Human Factors

PhD 天美传媒

  • Alasdair Mackay

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    Brain injury biomechanics
    Helmet performance and design
    Computational modelling of fast jet ejection sequences

  • Emily Yik Kwan Chan

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    Head trauma biomechanics
    Surrogate modelling
    Machine learning

  • Vahid Darvishi

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    Brain injuries and disorders
    Biomechanics
    Cancer Detection/Treatment

     

  • Elena Koumantou

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    Injury Biomechanics
    Musculoskeletal biomechanics

Alumni (research staff)

  • Dr Raj Desai

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    Research Associate

    Affiliations

    Brain Biomechanics
    Multibody dynamics
    Human factors
    Vehicle dynamics

  • Dr Xiancheng Yu

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    Research Associate

    Research interests

    Biomechanics of Blast Traumatic Brain Injury
    New helmet test methods
    Computational Modelling of high rate phenomena

  • Dr Florence Leong

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    Dr Florence Leong Research Associate

    Research interests

    Computational modelling of tissue biomechanics
    Surgical robotics

  • Dr Siamak Khosroshahi

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    Research Associate

    Research interests

    Multiscale computational modelling of vascular injury
    Design of personal protective equipment

  • Dr Petros Siegkas

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    Research Associate

    Research interests

    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Protective Equipment

Alumni (PhD 天美传媒)

  • Dr Claire Baker

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    Autotriage in road traffic collisions
    Multibody dynamics modelling

  • Dr Xiancheng Yu

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    Biomechanics of Blast Traumatic Brain Injury
    Computational Modelling of high rate phenomena

  • Dr Fady F. Abayazid

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    Research interests

    Energy Absorbing Systems
    Personal Protective Equipment
    Biomechanics of Cervical Spine Injury
    Biomechanics of Brain Injury
    Finite Element Simulations (Dynamics)
    Mechanics of Polymers

  • Dr Karl (Gus) Zimmerman

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    PhD student (primary affiliation: Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory (C3NL))

    Research interests

    Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury in sporting collisions

  • Dr Harry Duckworth

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    PhD Student

    Research interests

    Computational modelling of traumatic vascular injury
    Finite element analysis
    Smoothed particle hydrodynamics

  • Dr Adriana M. Azor

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    PhD Student

    Research interests

    Blast traumatic brain injury
    Neuroimaging analysis methods for subject-level analysis

  • Dr Hazel May

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury
    Animal models of traumatic brain injury
    Blast traumatic brain injury

  • Dr Andrea Bracali

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    Visiting PhD student from University of Florence

    Research interests

    Data analysis
    Deep learning and neural networks
    Finite element analysis
    passive safety for motorcyclists

  • Dr Richard Pangonis

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    PhD student

    Research interests

    High rate mechanical testing of brain tissue
    Blast traumatic brain injury

Head of Group

Dr Mazdak Ghajari
Reader in Brain Biomechanics, Dyson School of Design Engineering

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Opportunities

If you are interested in the work we do and are interested in postgraduate (PhD) or postdoctoral research, you can find more information about scholarships and fellowships below:

We are also interested in Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme applicants.

Please get in touch with Mazdak Ghajari in the first instance if interested in applying.