The Team
Our research explores the mechanical behaviours of multiphasic and multiscale heterogeneous materials including biomaterials and biological tissues, with a wide range of experimental and computational approaches.

Yuhang Chen
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Mahmood Saleh
PhD Candidate
mahs2000 AT hw.ac.uk
Jointly supervised by Dr Bill MacPherson and Prof Duncan Hand

Wanqi Feng
PhD Candidate
wf2008 AT hw.ac.uk
Jointly supervised by Dr Bill MacPherson and Prof Duncan Hand

Mark McDonald
Postdoctoral Research Associate
M.McDonald AT hw.ac.uk

Joshua Gammie
Research Associate
jg2021 AT hw.ac.uk

Mahta Majidi
Research Associate
M.Majidi AT hw.ac.uk

Calum Anderson
PhD Candidate
ca34 AT hw.ac.uk
Jointly supervised with Dr Ali Ozel and Prof Bob Reuben

Carolina Tacchella
PhD candidate
ct2010 AT hw.ac.uk
Jointly supervised with Dr Michael Crichton

Patricia Medesan
PhD candidate
p.medesan AT sms.ed.ac.uk
Jointly supervised with Dr. Jennifer Paxton (Edinburgh) and Jellagen, funded by Medical Research Scotland
Group Alumni

Lewis Mackay
2020-2022

Piyush Lakhani
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Olufemi Johnson
Royal Academic of Engineering Enterprise Fellow

Antonio Candito
2015-2019 (PhD)

Hannah Persson
2013-2020 (KTP associate, then part-time PhD)

Javier Palacio-Torralba
2013-2018 (PhD, then Postdoc)

Solenn Le Pense
2013-2016 (Postdoc)

Behnam Esfandiar Jahromi
2014-2017 (PhD)

Frank Yntema
2013-2017 (PhD)

Jessica Barkhuisen
2015-2019 (PhD)

Judith Abolle-Okoyeagu
2014-2019 (PhD, Part-time)