Faculty & Staff

Lauren Briens

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering; Assistant Dean, First Year Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Pharmaceutical manufacturing, particulate processes, monitoring techniques, signal analysis
Pillar(s): Biomaterials

Corey Baron

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Neuroscience

Research Interests / Specializations: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diffusion MRI, ultra high field MRI, quantitative MRI
Pillar(s): Imaging

Jeffrey J.L. Carson

Imaging Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute; Associate Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics, Physics & Astronomy, and Surgery

Research Interests / Specializations: Photoacoustic tomography, multispectral optical imaging, nanoscale optical devices, breast cancer detection
Pillar(s): Imaging

Elvis Chen

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Adjunct Research Professor, Medical Biophysics; Research Associate, Robarts Research Institute; Member of Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Computer-assisted surgery, surgical tool design, surgical guidance, human-computer interactions biomechanics for lower extremities, registration
Pillar(s): Imaging, Biomechanics

Sandrine de Ribaupierre

Associate Professor, Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Electrical and Computer Software Engineering, Medical Biophysics, Anatomy and Cell Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: Virtual reality as an educational tool, both for anatomy and for surgical skills; Effect of 2D vs 3D in neuroanatomy teaching for medical students and residents; Evaluation of surgical simulation tools; 3D neuroendoscopy, virtual brain modeling, and scenario-based virtual training for neurosurgery
Pillar(s): Imaging

James Dickey

Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology; Director of the Joint Biomechanics Laboratory, School of Kinesiology

Research Interests / Specializations: Orthopaedic biomechanics and joint injury, whole-body vibration
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Mamadou Diop

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Lawson Health Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Tissue spectroscopy and imaging, tissue perfusion and oxidative metabolism, vascular health
Pillar(s): Imaging

Maria Dragnova

Professor, Medical Biophysics; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardiac imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, minimally invasive cardiac intervention guidance, mechatronics for image guided interventions, 3D computed tomography, vascular imaging
Pillar(s): Imaging

Emma Duerden

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education; Core member, Brain and Mind Institute; Member, Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Paediatric imaging, magnetic resonance imaging
Pillar(s): Imaging

Roy Eagleson

Research Interests / Specializations: Design and evaluation of AR/VR-based surgical simulators; 3D immersive human-computer interfaces; anatomical training using AR/VR; software engineering design; quantitative evaluation of HCI systems using cognitive science methodologies
Pillar(s): Imaging

Aaron Fenster

Director and Scientist, Robarts Imaging Research; Lab Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics & Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Image processing with application in image guided therapy and surgery; Image processing with application in diagnosing and monitoring vascular disease leading to stroke; Instrumentation with application in image guided breast cancer biopsy; Image processing and instrumentation with application in automated diagnosis of breast cancer
Pillar(s): Imaging

Louis Ferreira

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Department of Surgery; Associate Director (Undergraduate Studies) Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery, Use of mechatronic systems in surgery and orthopaedic research; In-vitro biomechanical testing for evaluation of orthopaedic surgical procedures; Minimally invasive methods for orthopaedic procedures using robotics and computer-assisted methods
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

J.M. Floryan

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Fluid mechanics, blood and urine flows, pulmonary dynamics, wave propagation in complex media with applications to concussion modelling
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Lauren Flynn

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering; Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: Tissue engineering & regenerative medicine, adipose-derived stem cells, naturally-derived biomaterials, dynamic cell culture systems
Pillar(s): Biomaterials

Elizabeth R. Gillies

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Polymer chemistry, drug delivery, biodegradable polymers, polymer assembly, contrast agents
Pillar(s): Biomaterials

Daniel Goldman

Associate Professor, Department Of Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Experiment-based computational modeling of microcirculatory hemodynamics, mass transport, and blood flow regulation
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Douglas Hamilton

Assistant Professor; Associate Member of CIHR Group in Skeletal Development and Remodelling, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: Design of model systems to assess the factors that govern cellular interactions with bio(active) materials; In vitro and in vivo evaluation of biomaterials and cellular response; Use of transgenic mice and proteomic/genomic techniques to assess the role of proteins in biomaterial integration in bone and connective tissue
Pillar(s): Biomaterials

Kathleen Hill

Associate Professor, Department of Biology; Associate Professor and Co-PI, Synthetic Biology Graduate Program [Interdisciplinary Development Initiative]; Associate Professor [Adjunct], Department of Computer Science; Associate Scientist Member Ophthalmology, Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute; Associate Professor, Member Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program; Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Mutation research, environmental mutagenesis, spontaneous mutations, genomic signatures, cancer research, vision loss, retinal neurodegeneration, ocular drug delivery
Pillar(s): Biomaterials, Imaging

David W. Holdsworth

Scientist, Robarts Research Institute; Professor, Surgery and Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Musculoskeletal imaging, micro-computed tomography, finite-element modeling, image-based design, additive manufacturing, orthopeadic biomechanics
Pillar(s): Imaging, Biomechanics

Thomas Jenkyn

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, School of Kinesiology; Co-Director, Wolf Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory (WOBL); Director, Wolf Orthopaedic Quantitative Imaging Laboratory (WOQIL)

Research Interests / Specializations: Impact biomechanics; injury causation; concussion and acquired brain injury; helmet design and testing; whiplash and soft tissue biomechanics; trauma biomechanics; forensic biomechanics; medical imaging; fluoroscopic radiostereometric analysis (RSA); gait and motion analysis; computational biomechanics; orthopaedic biomechanics
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

James Johnson

Co-Director, BioEngineering Research Laboratory Hand and Upper Limb Centre, St. Joseph's Health Centre; Professor, Departments of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Surgery and Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Implant fixation and materials; joint kinematics; fracture stabilization; soft tissue mechanics
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Ali Khan

Assistant Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics, Medical Imaging; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute; Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Computational Neuroimaging

Research Interests / Specializations: Development of image processing and analysis tools for neurological disorders; neurosurgical planning and guidance software and hardware; advanced MRI using quantitative mapping, diffusion modeling, and ultra-high field strengths (7T, 9.4T)
Pillar(s): Imaging

James Lacefield

Director, School of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Medical Biophysics; Associate Scientist, Imaging, Robarts Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: High-frequency ultrasound, quantitative vascular imaging, applications of ultrasound to oncology
Pillar(s): Imaging

Hanif Ladak

Professor, Medical Biophysics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery; Associate Member, National Centre for Audiology

Research Interests / Specializations: Medical imaging and image analysis, focusing on segmentation and registration. Auditory biophysics, both experimental biomechanics and finite-element modeling. Design of virtual-reality environments for surgical simulation
Pillar(s): Imaging, Biomechanics

Emily Lalone

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Kinematics, joint contact mechanics, musculoskeletal imaging, orthopaedic biomechanics, rehabilitation sciences
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Daniel Langohr

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Design and analysis of orthopaedic implants; Computational and in-vitro tribological assessments of interacting surfaces; The finite element analysis of mechanical and biological structures
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Penny MacDonald

Associate Professor, Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Neuroimaging to develop biomarkers for neurological disorders, MRI, fMRI, PET
Pillar(s): Imaging

Haojie Mao

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding mechanisms of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and proposing engineering solutions for better protecting the brain; Trauma; Cognition; Impacts; Blasts; Passive/active safety of vehicles
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Sarah Mattonen

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Translational cancer imaging; Medical image analysis; Radiomics; Machine Learning
Pillar(s): Imaging

Charles McKenzie

Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute; Children’s Health Research Institute; Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering; Department of Medical Imaging, Department of Biology

Research Interests / Specializations: Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI sequence development, MRI image reconstruction, metabolic MRI, MRI in pregnancy
Pillar(s): Imaging

Ravi Menon

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Department of Medical Imaging, Department of Psychiatry, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Functional magnetic resonance imaging, ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging, neuroscience, radio frequency coil design
Pillar(s): Imaging

Kibret Mequanint

Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and radiotherapy hydrogel dosimeters
Pillar(s): Biomaterials

Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science; Core member, Brain and Mind Institute; Member, Biomedical Engineering; Member, Neuroscience Program

Research Interests / Specializations: Imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), computational neuroscience, machine learning and deep learning
Pillar(s): Imaging

Marieke Mur

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Computer Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging, deep learning.
Pillar(s): Imaging

Michael Naish

Director, Mechatronic Systems Engineering Program; Associate Professor, Departments of Mechanical and Materials Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering; Scientist, Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics Institute (CSTAR)

Research Interests / Specializations: Mechatronic instruments and devices for surgery and therapy; Sensing systems for minimally invasive surgery; Surgical robotics; Systems for surgical skills assessment and training
Pillar(s): Mechatronics

Geoffrey Ng

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Department of Medical Imaging (Cross-Appointment), Department of Surgery (Cross-Appointment); Scientist, Robarts Research institute; Affiliate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Musculoskeletal Biomechanics, Orthopaedics, Imaging and Modelling, Computational Methods and Finite Element Simulations, In Vitro Simulations, Implant Design
Pillar(s): Biomechanics, Imaging

Alexei Ouriadov

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Hyperpolarized gas MRI; PET compatible RF coils; High temperature superconductor material RF coils; Xenon polarizers; Simultaneous PET/Xenon MR lung and brain imaging; Accelerated Xenon MRI
Pillar(s): Imaging

Grace Parraga

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Department of Oncology, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry; School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Western University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS

Research Interests / Specializations: Developing a deep understanding of chronic lung disease using novel imaging methods, in patient-based research; discover, validate and clinically translate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) biomarkers of lung disease while generating the evidence to support the clinical use of lung MRI to change asthma and COPD patient outcomes
Pillar(s): Biomechanics, Imaging

Rajni Patel

Distinguished University Professor and Tier 1- Canada Research Chair: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Surgery, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Robotics-assisted medical interventions; haptics and telerobotics; needle steering and percutaneous therapies; technologies for surgical training and skills assessment; mechatronic systems for laparoscopic surgery; movement disorders and rehabilitation engineering
Pillar(s): Mechatronics

Arghya Paul

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair

Research Interests / Specializations: Biomaterials; Stem Cells; Nanomedicine; Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; Cell and Drug Delivery; Medical Implants

Terry Peters

Professor, Department of Medical Imaging, Department of Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Image-guided interventions, virtual and augmented reality surgical simulation, medical image visualization
Pillar(s): Imaging

Tamie Poepping

Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy; Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Hemodynamics of the carotid bifurcation, Ultrasound flow measurement techniques, Vascular modelling, Particle image velocimetry, computational fluid dynamics / fluid-structure interaction
Pillar(s): Imaging

Aaron Price

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Smart material actuators and sensors, mechatronic systems for biomedical applications, additive manufacturing of advanced materials, conductive electroactive polymers and composites, magnetic and thermal shape memory materials, micro-fluidic transducers for lab-on-a-chip applications
Pillar(s): Biomechanics, Biomaterials

Amin Rizkalla

Professor, Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

Research Interests / Specializations: Wet chemical synthesis and physical and mechanical and biological characterization of glasses, ceramic, nanocomposite and hybrid biomaterials that are used for dental and orthopaedic applications; 3D printing of cobalt-chromium and titanium alloys and polymers substructures for dental and maxillofacial applications
Pillar(s): Biomaterials

Abbas Samani

Professor, Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Medical Biophysics

Research Interests / Specializations: Biological tissue modelling and its applications in medical imaging and intervention; medical image registration and elastography
Pillar(s): Imaging

Jagath Samarabandu

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer ENgineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Image processing, biomedical imaging and visualization, computer vision, artificial intelligence, image understanding
Pillar(s): Imaging

Taylor W. Schmitz

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology; Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute, Robarts Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Neuroscience, neurodegenerative diseases, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, biomarkers.
Pillar(s): Imaging

Aaron So

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry; Scientist, Imaging, Lawson Health Research Institute; Associate Scientist, Imaging, Robarts Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Quantitative cardiovascular imaging, functional computed tomography, tracer kinetic modelling, fluid dynamics, image reconstruction
Pillar(s): Imaging

Matthew Teeter

Assistant Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics and Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Research Interests / Specializations: Musculoskeletal imaging, orthopaedic implants, 3D printing
Pillar(s): Biomechanics, Imaging

Ana Luisa Trejos

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Associate Scientist, Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics, Lawson Health Research Institute

Research Interests / Specializations: Design and integration of novel technologies for the development of wearable mechatronic devices for musculoskeletal rehabilitation, design and evaluation of mechatronic devices and systems for minimally invasive surgery and therapy, and development and evaluation of systems for training and motor skills assessment
Pillar(s): Mechatronics

Remus Tutunea-Fatan

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Bio-CAD, machining of osseous tissue, computer-aided orthopaedic surgery
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Boyu Wang

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Machine learning, brain-computer interface (BCI), electroencephalography (EEG) signal analysis, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Pillar(s): Imaging

Aaron Ward

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Medical image segmentation, registration, cancer imaging, image-guided diagnosis and therapy
Pillar(s): Imaging

Ryan Willing

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Bone and joint biomechanics, orthopaedic biomechanics, implant design, computer modelling, joint simulator robotics
Pillar(s): Biomechanics

Jin Zhang

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering; Associate Director (Graduate Studies) Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Biomimetic nanostructures; theranostics, bio-sensor technique
Pillar(s): Biomaterials

Jesse Zhu

Distinguished University Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests / Specializations: Pharmaceutical processes; Powder coating for tablets and beads; Pulmonary drug delivery; Particle technology
Pillar(s): Biomaterials, Biomechanics