Potential PhD projects

Students Biomedical Lab Research
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Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell
  1. Optrode design for brain-machine interfaces
  2. Smartphone apps for managing chronic disease
  3. Gene electrotherapy for neural augmentation

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Dr Socrates Dokos
  1. Computational modelling of retinal electrical stimulation
  2. Computational cardiac electromechanics
  3. Modelling transcranial electric stimulation

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Dr Michael Stevens
  1. Fall detection and activity monitoring in patients with Alzheimer's disease

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Dr Tianruo Guo
  1. Smart stimulation strategies for selective activation of different neuron classes 
  2. Computational Modelling of retinal degeneration 

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Dr Amr Al Abed
  1. Computational Cardiology
  2. Optrode arrays for neural interfacing and cardiac diagnostics
  3. Bionic-array driven gene delivery 

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Dr Mohit Shivdasani
  1. Novel current focusing and steering methods to improve spatial resolution of bionic eyes
  2. Stimulation strategies for selective activation of different neuron classes
  3. Platinum dissolution and stimulation waveforms to minimise dissolution
  4. Generation of direct current with neural stimulation and safety limits
  5. Encoding of touch in the somatosensory brainstem (collaboration with SoMS)
  6. Understanding the influence of retinal degeneration on the efficacy of retinal stimulation

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Dr David Tsai
  1. Soft implantable neuroprobes
  2. CMOS ICs for large-scale neural interfacing
  3. Circuits and systems for real-time, closed-loop neurophysiology
  4. Neural stimulation

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Professor Laura Poole-Warren
  1. Soft, flexible conductive polymers for neural interfaces
  2. Biomaterials for cell encapsulation and tissue engineering

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Professor Ewa Goldys
  1. Non invasive Diagnostics
  2. Biosensors 

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Professor John Whitelock
  1. Gene editing of perlecan influences stem cell differentiatio
  2. Extracellular Matrix in Cancer Progression

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Dr Robert Nordon
  1. Bioreactors for cell manufacture
  2. Microneedles for personalised medicine
  3. Designing human organoids from stem cells

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Dr Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina
  1. Bioengineered vascularised cardiac patches
  2. Development of biomimetic materials
  3. Next-generation vascular grafts 

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Dr Kang Liang
  1. Design and synthesis of advanced nanobionics
  2. A versatile nanodevice for early-stage disease and cancer diagnostics

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Dr Thanh Nho Do
  1. Design and control of flexible surgical robots for gastrointestinal cancer treatment
  2. Soft wearable haptic devices for medical and robotic applications
  3. Shape programmable and multifunctional soft muscles for robotics and healthcares
  4. Advanced mechatronic tracheostomy system for respiratory disease treatment
  5. Multifunctional soft magnetic capsule robots
  6. Multifunctional soft sensors for wearable computing, electronics, robotics, and healthcare

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Associate Professor Penny Martens
  1. Fundamental design and characterisation of new hydrogel systems for cell encapsulation and tissue engineering.
  2. Design and characterisation of hydrogel biomaterials for application in a range of biomedical applications

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Associate Professor Megan Lord
  1. Bioengineered growth factor binding scaffolds for improved diabetic wound healing
  2. Understanding glycopolymer biomaterial interactions with blood vessels

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Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh
  1. Development of biomimetic conducting structures: toward the next generation implants
  2. Additive manufacturing of atomically thin two-dimensional materials for biomedical applications

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Dr Bart Bolsterlee
  1. Deep learning methods for biomedical image analysis
  2. Quantitative shape analysis and modelling in muscle imaging

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Dr Hamid Alinejad-Rokny
  1. Enhancing chromosome conformation capture resolution with deep convolutional neural network
  2. Deep convolutional neural network in the classification of Single-cell data
  3. Analysis of associations between genetic and transcriptomic variations in different populations
  4. Making new insight into gene expression profiling in cancers
  5. A novel integrative approach to build up transcriptional regulatory networks in neurodevelopmental disorders

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Dr Fatemeh Karimi
  1. Development of next-generation of biomimetic materials and delivery platforms for tissue engineering applications including cardiovascular disease and wound healing
  2. Development of tissue bioadhesive materials
  3. Development of novel biomaterial platforms with improved blood-material interactions including vascular grafts and stents to treat coronary heart disease
  4. Development of delivery systems for the treatment of ocular disease

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Dr Matthew Brodie
  1. Smart textiles and/or peripheral nerve stimulation to treat Parkinson's Disease and other chronic conditions
  2. Wearable device, gait, health and genetic data to predict and prevent disease
  3. Biomechanics, 3D gait analysis and musculoskeletal modelling using 3D motion capture and/or OpenSim
  4. Augmented reality systems for gait retraining, falls prevention and/or performance enhancement

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