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

Yuhang Chen

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Yuhang Chen

Mahmood Saleh

PhD Candidate

mahs2000 AT hw.ac.uk

Jointly supervised by Dr Bill MacPherson and Prof Duncan Hand

Yuhang Chen

Wanqi Feng

PhD Candidate

wf2008 AT hw.ac.uk

Jointly supervised by Dr Bill MacPherson and Prof Duncan Hand

Yuhang Chen

Mark McDonald

Postdoctoral Research Associate

M.McDonald AT hw.ac.uk

Caleb Phillips

Joshua Gammie

Research Associate

jg2021 AT hw.ac.uk

Pedro Frank

Mahta Majidi

Research Associate

M.Majidi AT hw.ac.uk

Darren Klein

Calum Anderson

PhD Candidate

ca34 AT hw.ac.uk

Jointly supervised with Dr Ali Ozel and Prof Bob Reuben

Darren Klein

Carolina Tacchella

PhD candidate

ct2010 AT hw.ac.uk

Jointly supervised with Dr Michael Crichton

Darren Klein

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

Dewey Hall

Lewis Mackay

2020-2022

Dewey Hall

Piyush Lakhani

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dewey Hall

Olufemi Johnson

Royal Academic of Engineering Enterprise Fellow

Dewey Hall

Antonio Candito

2015-2019 (PhD)

Dewey Hall

Hannah Persson

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

Dewey Hall

Javier Palacio-Torralba

2013-2018 (PhD, then Postdoc)

Perry Larson

Solenn Le Pense

2013-2016 (Postdoc)

Lorenzo Pope

Behnam Esfandiar Jahromi

2014-2017 (PhD)

Caleb Phillips

Frank Yntema

2013-2017 (PhD)

Pedro Frank

Jessica Barkhuisen

2015-2019 (PhD)

Darren Klein

Judith Abolle-Okoyeagu

2014-2019 (PhD, Part-time)