The Harvard Biodesign Lab brings together a highly multidisciplinary group of researchers and staff from the engineering, industrial design, apparel and medical communities to develop technologies that augment and restore human performance. In addition to traditional academic research, the lab is also highly translation-focused and has a track record of securing and delivering on large government funded projects (e.g. DARPA Warrior Web) that partially or fully support dedicated staff engineers who are part of the Wyss Institute’s translation team and work directly alongside the academic researchers.
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| Biodesign Lab 2014 Summer Trip to Purity Springs | Biodesign Lab 2017 Lab Retreat at Friendly Crossways |
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| Biodesign Lab 2021 Pumkin Carving Contest | |
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Professor Conor Walsh (PI)Conor is the Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the John A. Paulson Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Associate Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. |
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Lab Administrator Frey Tesfaye |
Postdoctoral Researchers and Research Associates
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Dr. Daekyum Kim Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Tunc Akbas Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Megan Applegate Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Oluwaseun Araromi Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Wood |
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Dr. Cameron Hohimer Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Richard Nuckols |
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Dr. Franchino Porciuncula Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Tommaso Proietti |
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Dr. Diogo Schwerz de Lucena Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Hee Doo Yang Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Sung-Woo Park Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Chris Payne Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Jessica Hunter Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Adam Quirk Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Graduate Students
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Claire Traweek (G0) |
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James Arnold (G0) |
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Elizabeth Suitor (G0) |
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Haedo Cho (G1) |
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Philipp Arens (G1) |
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David Farrell (G1) |
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Harrison Young (G1) |
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Lauren Baker (G2) |
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Myles Cooper (G2) |
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Dabin Choe (G3) |
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Chih-Kang Chang (G3) |
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Connor McCann (G3) |
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Jonathan Alvarez (G3) |
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Krithika Swaminathan (G4) |
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Yichu Jin (G4) |
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Jinwon Chung (G4) |
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Yu Meng (Kate) Zhou (G4) |
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Christopher Siviy (G5) |
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Martina Moyne (G5) – co-advised with Donal Holland at UCD |
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Jinsoo Kim (G6) |
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Ciaran O’Neill (G6) |
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Evelyn Park (G6) |
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Sangjun Lee (G7) |
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Brendan Quinlivan (G7) |
Research Staff and Wyss Staff Collaborators
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Tazzy Cole Functional Apparel Design Research Fellow |
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Brittany Cohen |
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Jonathan Foster |
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Ryan Gulland |
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Francesco Bertacchi |
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Jesse Grupper Research Fellow |
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Dheepak Arumukhom Revi (now a PhD student at BU) |
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Alex Beaudette |
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Asa Eckert Erdheim Robotics Engineer |
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Nathalie Farster-Degenhardt Functional Apparel Designer |
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Dr. Ignacio Galiana Robotics Engineer |
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Chrissy Glover Research Fellow |
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Max Herman Software Engineer |
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Brice Iwangou Electrical Research Assistant |
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Nicolas Menard Research Fellow |
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Patrick Murphy Electromechanical Engineer |
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Kristin Nuckols Occupational Therapist |
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Dorothy Orzel |
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David Perry Staff Engineer |
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Dr. Dmitry Popov |
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Mike Rouleau Electromechanical Engineer |
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Lexine Schumm Research Fellow |
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Sapna Shah Research Fellow |
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Diana Wagner Functional Apparel Designer |
Visiting Graduate Students
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Robert Hennig |
Undergraduate Students
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Jessica Devilla |
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Kasey Hu |
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Fouzia Raza |