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Dr Reem Almasri

Dr Reem Almasri

Research Associate

PhD in Biomedical Engineering, 2023, University of New South Wales, Australia
Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering, 2019, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (1st class Honours), 2017, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Engineering
Grad Sch: Biomedical Eng

Reem Almasri is a Research Associate at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW working in the fields of brain/machine interfaces, electrophysiology, material characterisation, and micorfabrication of implantable devices and biomedical sensors. A key theme of her work is on designing flexible interfaces and bio-integrated technologies. Reem is currently working on developing flexible photonics-based sensors to detect cardiac and neural electrophysiology using polymers and liquid crystals. 
E-mail
r.almasri@unsw.edu.au
Location
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering Samuels Building (F25) The University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Truong TA; Huang X; Barton M; Ashok A; Al Abed A; Almasri R; Shivdasanic MN; Reshamwala R; Ingles J; Thai MT; Nguyen CC; Zhao S; Zhang X; Gu Z; Vasanth A; Peng S; Nguyen TK; Do N; Nguyen NT; Zhao H; Phan HP, 2025, 'Flexible Electrode Arrays Based on a Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Chronic Implantable Multiplexed Sensing and Heart Pacemakers', ACS Nano, 19, pp. 1642 - 1659, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c15294
    Journal articles | 2024
    Almasri RM; Lim SS; Lovell NH; Ladouceur F; Al Abed A, 2024, 'Alignment assessment of anisotropic liquid crystals through an automated image processing algorithm', Journal of Molecular Liquids, 408, pp. 125243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2024.125243
    Journal articles | 2024
    Ladouceur F; Al Abed A; Lehmann T; Almasri RM; Firth J; Lovell NH, 2024, 'All optical neural interfaces', Applied Optics, 63, pp. D21 - D27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.512480
    Journal articles | 2023
    Almasri RM; Ladouceur F; Mawad D; Esrafilzadeh D; Firth J; Lehmann T; Poole-Warren LA; Lovell NH; Al Abed A, 2023, 'Emerging trends in the development of flexible optrode arrays for electrophysiology', APL Bioengineering, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0153753
    Journal articles | 2023
    Wei Y; Wang H; Al Abed A; Almasri RM; Lei X; Firth J; Silvestri L; Ladouceur F; Lehmann T; Lovell NH, 2023, 'A Bi-Directional Detection and Stimulation Optrode System With Charge Balancing for Neural Applications', Journal of Lightwave Technology, 41, pp. 4463 - 4472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2023.3250827
    Journal articles | 2022
    Al Abed A; Wei Y; Almasri RM; Lei X; Wang H; Firth J; Chen Y; Gouailhardou N; Silvestri L; Lehmann T; Ladouceur F; Lovell NH, 2022, 'Liquid crystal electro-optical transducers for electrophysiology sensing applications', Journal of Neural Engineering, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ac8ed6
    Journal articles | 2022
    Almasri RM; Abed AA; Wei Y; Wang H; Firth J; Poole-Warren LA; Ladouceur F; Lehmann T; Lovell NH, 2022, 'Impedance Properties of Multi-Optrode Biopotential Sensing Arrays', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 69, pp. 1674 - 1684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2021.3126849
    Journal articles | 2020
    Almasri RM; Alchamaa W; Tehrani-Bagha AR; Khraiche ML, 2020, 'Highly Flexible Single-Unit Resolution All Printed Neural Interface on a Bioresorbable Backbone', ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3, pp. 7040 - 7051, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.0c00895
  • Conference Papers | 2024
    Feng Z; Almasri R; Al Abed A; Ladouceur F, 2024, 'Optimising liquid crystal alignment via image gradient analysis', in Advanced Photonics Congress 2024, Optica Publishing Group, pp. NoTu3H.1 - NoTu3H.1, presented at Novel Optical Materials and Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/noma.2024.notu3h.1
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Almasri RM; Wei Y; Ladouceur F; Poole-Warren LA; Lovell NH; Al Abed A, 2023, 'A Comparative Assessment of Evoked Compound Action Potentials Measured by Optrode and Conventional Bioamplifier Systems', in International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NER52421.2023.10123877
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Almasri RM; Abed AA; Esrafilzadeh D; Mawad D; Poole-Warren LA; Lovell NH, 2022, 'Electromechanical Stability and Transmission Behavior of Transparent Conductive Films for Biomedical Optoelectronic Devices', in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, pp. 5 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9870827