Projects
The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.
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Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Programmable mechanical metamaterials for soft robotics
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-a-chip and disease-on-a-chip technologies
Team: David Collins, Vini Gautam
Multiscale computational nanofluidics
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Microscopy image segmentation using machine and deep learning
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Nano-scaffolds for neuroengineering
Team: Vini Gautam
Novel techniques for intelligent monitoring of fetal health
Team: Marimuthu Palaniswami, Emerson Keenan
Study of brain organoids to understand dementia
Team: Vini Gautam
Active matter: a multiscale simulation method for advanced swimmers
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Personalised optimisation of cochlear implants
Team: Demi Gao, David Grayden
Mechanical response of subchondral bone to fatigue loading
Team: Fatemeh Malekipour, Peter Lee
Creating subject-specific mathematical models to understand the brain
Team: David Grayden, Philippa Karoly, Mark Cook
Computational modelling of calcium signalling in heart growth
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Cardiac cell mechanobiology
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Engineering stem cell derived cardiac tissue for drug screening of mitochondrial diseases
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Mitochondria form and function in the diabetic heart
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Energy harvesting and storage devices utilising piezoelectricity
Team: Amanda Ellis
Understanding the interaction between extracellular matrix molecules that modulate tissue turnover
Team: Brooke Farrugia
Utilising marine based sulphated polysaccharides to create new biomimetic material technologies
Team: Brooke Farrugia
Acoustic engineering: microfabrication of acoustic waveguides for non-contact microscale assembly
Team: David Collins
Advanced 3D bioprinting: cell micromanipulation across hierarchical length scales
Team: David Collins
Novel mechanisms for continuous micro/nanoparticle manipulation
Team: David Collins
Efficient and effective adaptive radiotherapy
Team: Leigh Johnston
Use of Deep Learning computational methods to characterise cancer burden in PET imaging
Team: Leigh Johnston
Radiomics for cancer diagnosis and patient outcome prediction
Team: Leigh Johnston
Cancer data analytics with Deep Neural Networks
Team: Saman Halgamuge
Machine learning in functional MRI
Team: Leigh Johnston, Dr Catherine Davey
Optimised PET reconstruction
Team: Leigh Johnston
Pattern recognition algorithms for the analysis of metagenomes
Team: Saman Halgamuge
Pattern recognition in data generated by metabolite imaging of biological tissue sections
Team: Saman Halgamuge
Bridging the gaps in visual awareness
Team: Hinze Hogendoorn, Anthony Burkitt
Control of prosthetic limbs from decoded brain signals
Team: David Grayden, Mark Cook, Sam John, David Ackland
Predicting the present
Team: Hinze Hogendoorn, Anthony Burkitt
Surfing the rhythm of visual perception
Team: Hinze Hogendoorn, Anthony Burkitt
Vision restoration with retinal prosthetics: Understanding the impact of retinal degeneration on electrical stimulation efficacy
Team: David Grayden, Anthony Burkitt
Continuous wave magnetic resonance
Team: Leigh Johnston, Peter Farrell, James Korte
Advanced epileptic seizure warning methods
Team: David Grayden, Anthony Burkitt
Understanding cortical processing: Neuronal activity and learning in recurrently connected networks
Team: David Grayden, Anthony Burkitt
Individualised cochlear implant sound coding: Optimised algorithms for better hearing
Team: David Grayden, Anthony Burkitt, Demi Gao