Academic staff

  • Dr Mazdak Ghajari

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    Dr Mazdak Ghajari 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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    Dr Claire Baker 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

  • Rachel Tan

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    Rachel Tan Research Assistant

    Research interests

    Injury Biomechanics/Head Trauma
    Test Protocol Development
    Human Factors

PhD students

  • Alasdair Mackay

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    Alasdair Mackay 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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    Emily Yik Kwan Chan PhD student

    Research interests

    Head trauma biomechanics
    Surrogate modelling
    Machine learning

  • Vahid Darvishi

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    Vahid Darvishi PhD student

    Research interests

    Brain injuries and disorders
    Biomechanics
    Cancer Detection/Treatment

     
  • Elena Koumantou

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    Elena Koumantou PhD student

    Research interests

    Injury Biomechanics
    Musculoskeletal biomechanics

Alumni (research staff)

  • Dr Raj Desai

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    Dr Raj Desai Research Associate

    Affiliations

    Brain Biomechanics
    Multibody dynamics
    Human factors
    Vehicle dynamics

  • Dr Xiancheng Yu

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    Dr Xiancheng Yu 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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    Dr Siamak Khosroshahi Research Associate

    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

    Research interests

    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Protective Equipment

Alumni (PhD students)

  • Dr Claire Baker

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    Dr Claire Baker PhD student

    Research interests

    Autotriage in road traffic collisions
    Multibody dynamics modelling

  • Dr Xiancheng Yu

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    Dr Xiancheng Yu PhD student

    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

    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))

    Research interests

    Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury in sporting collisions

  • Dr Harry Duckworth

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    Dr Harry Duckworth PhD Student

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Research interests

    High rate mechanical testing of brain tissue
    Blast traumatic brain injury

Contact us

For queries, please contact Mazdak Ghajari:

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.