Academic staff

• Dr Mazdak Ghajari

  

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  Dr Mazdak Ghajari Reader in Brain Biomechanics

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  Research interests

  Injury Biomechanics
  Computational Mechanics
  Traumatic Brain Injury
  Helmet Performance and Design

Research staff

• Dr Claire Baker

  

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  Dr Claire Baker Research Associate

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  Research interests

  Autotriage in road traffic collisions
  Multibody dynamics modelling

• Dr Raj Desai

  

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  Dr Raj Desai Research Associate

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  Research interests

  Brain Biomechanics
  Multibody dynamics
  Human factors
  Vehicle dynamics

• Rachel Tan

  

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  Rachel Tan Research Assistant

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  Research interests

  Injury Biomechanics/Head Trauma
  Test Protocol Development
  Human Factors

PhD students

• Alasdair Mackay

  

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  Alasdair Mackay PhD student

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  Research interests

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

• Emily Yik Kwan Chan

  

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  Emily Yik Kwan Chan PhD student

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  Research interests

  Head trauma biomechanics
  Surrogate modelling
  Machine learning

• Vahid Darvishi

  

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  Vahid Darvishi PhD student

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  Research interests

  Traumatic Brain Injury
  Biomechanics
  Cancer Detection/Treatment

   

Alumni (research staff)

• Dr Xiancheng Yu

  

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  Dr Xiancheng Yu Research Associate

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  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

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  Research interests

  Computational modelling of tissue biomechanics
  Surgical robotics

• Dr Siamak Khosroshahi

  

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  Dr Siamak Khosroshahi Research Associate

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  Research interests

  Multiscale computational modelling of vascular injury
  Design of personal protective equipment

• Dr Petros Siegkas

  

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  Dr Petros Siegkas Research Associate

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  Research interests

  Traumatic Brain Injury
  Protective Equipment

Alumni (PhD students)

• Dr Claire Baker

  

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  Dr Claire Baker PhD student

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  Research interests

  Autotriage in road traffic collisions
  Multibody dynamics modelling

• Dr Xiancheng Yu

  

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  Dr Xiancheng Yu PhD student

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  Research interests

  Biomechanics of Blast Traumatic Brain Injury

  Computational Modelling of high rate phenomena

• Dr Fady F. Abayazid

  

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  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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  Dr Karl (Gus) Zimmerman PhD student (primary affiliation: Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory (C3NL))

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  Research interests

  Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury in sporting collisions

• Dr Harry Duckworth

  

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  Dr Harry Duckworth PhD Student

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  Research interests

  Computational modelling of traumatic vascular injury

  Finite element analysis

  Smoothed particle hydrodynamics

• Dr Adriana M. Azor

  

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  Dr Adriana M. Azor PhD Student

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  Research interests

  Blast traumatic brain injury

  Neuroimaging analysis methods for subject-level analysis

• Dr Hazel May

  

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  Dr Hazel May PhD student

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  Research interests

  Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury

  Animal models of traumatic brain injury

  Blast traumatic brain injury

• Dr Andrea Bracali

  

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  Dr Andrea Bracali Visiting PhD student from University of Florence

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  Research interests

  Data analysis

  Deep learning and neural networks

  Finite element analysis

  passive safety for motorcyclists

• Dr Richard Pangonis

  

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  Dr Richard Pangonis PhD student

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  Research interests

  High rate mechanical testing of brain tissue

  Blast traumatic brain injury