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Claudia Varela defended her thesis on May 2nd 2022. Her thesis “Device-enabled Biomechanical Modulation of the Infarcted Heart” applying new technology to modulate cardiac mechanics in preclinical models. She led this work and spearheaded and maintained fruitful collaborations with Prof. Xuanhe...
Markus Horvath defended on April 29th 2022. His thesis “A multimodal approach to investigate the effects of respiration on Fontan flow”. He is an expert on the single ventricle physiology mechanics in collaboration with Boston Childrens Hospital. His work is funded by a Charles Hood Award for...
Awarded to a graduate student in the life sciences
Ellen is co-chairing the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workship with Prof. Betar Gallant. The Rising Stars event for Mechanical Engineering will take place at MIT from Oct. 28-29, 2021. 32 of the top junior academic women in Mechanical Engineering from around the US have been invited to...
Lucy successfully defended her thesis. She is the first in the lab to defend and set the bar high!. We are all so proud of you Lucy!
Ellen, along with Prof. Xuanhe Zhao and Dr. Eimear Dolan, is co-organizing a mini-symposium at ESMC2022 in Galway, Ireland from the 4th – 8th July, 2022. The abstract submission is open until November 19th. ...
The Junior Bose Award is given annually to an outstanding contributor to education from among junior faculty.
Congratulations to Luca and Tom for receiving the 2021-22 MIT MathWorks Fellowship. The fellowship supports graduate students within the School of Engineering who are active users of MATLAB and/or Simulink.