Our Members
Assistant Professor, Systems Design Engineering
Research Interests: Microrobotics for medical applications, biohybrid approaches harnessing the functionalities of sperm cells and biological components, wirelessly controlled bioinspired artificial microrobots via magnetic fields, soft robots, and 3D bioprinting of muscle tissue.
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Development of soft and programmable materials and their applications in the design of mobile soft robots, functional devices, and artificial biological organisms; small-scale fabrication and assembly; responsive smart materials.
Professor, Chemistry; Associate Dean of Science
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, creation of materials and devices based on graphene and carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications, biomolecule-assisted nanomaterial self-assembly, and the health/environmental effects of engineered nanomaterials.
Associate Professor; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Health Monitoring BioNano Devices
Research Interests: Bio-sensing technologies for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, microfluidic-based integrated devices, implantable micro-devices for cancer treatment, circulating tumor cell phenotypic characterization, stem cell profiling, and silicon micro-machining for bio-MEMS and bio-NEMS devices.
Associate Professor, Systems Design Engineering; Research Chair in Biomedical Imaging
Research Interests: Biomedical optics, medical imaging and devices, image processing, machine learning, photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS) microscopy, capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUT), multi-scale functional/molecular photoacoustic tomography, and optical coherence tomography (OCT).
Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
Research Interests: Modeling and simulating microscale fluidic systems, biological fluid dynamics, microorganism motility, bio-inspired microrobotic swimmers, chemomechanical coupling, synthetic chemical reaction networks, and intercellular chemical signaling.
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering; Canada Research Chair in Droplet Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
Research Interests: Fundamental microfluidics and nanofluidics, microfluidic chip (Lab-on-a-Chip) technology for biological, chemical, and medical diagnosis/analysis, soft robotics, and battery-powered wearable microfluidic systems.
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Interests: Micromanipulation using magnetic levitation; magnetically driven medical microrobots for drug delivery and microsurgery; electromagnetic actuators; smart structures; energy harvesting; and biomechanics/prosthetics.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Associate Vice-President, Partnerships, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
Research Interests: Next-generation medical ultrasound imaging algorithms, high-performance beamforming platforms, flow phantom design, and therapeutic ultrasound.
Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy
Research Interests: Development and characterization of innovative drug delivery strategies, including nanomedicines, medical devices, and biomaterials.
Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Health Sciences; Schlegel Research Chair in Mobility and Aging
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal biomechanics related to human health, mobility, and injury prevention, specifically focusing on the effects of advanced age.
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