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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Professor Conor Walsh (PI)Conor is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. |
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Lab Administrator Frey Tesfaye |
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Dr. Oluwaseun Araromi Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Wood |
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Dr. Ozgur Atalay Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Asli Atalay Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Myunghee Kim Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Scott Kuindersma |
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Dr. Giuk Lee Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Chris Payne Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Tommaso Ranzani Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Wood |
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Dr. Sheila Russo Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Wood |
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Dr. Lizeth Sloot Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Hongqiang Wang Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Wood |
Graduate Students
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Vanessa Sanchez (G1) |
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Yu Meng (Kate) Zhou (G1) |
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Krithika Swaminathan (G1) |
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Yichu Jin (G1) |
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Jinwon Chung (G1) |
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Christopher Siviy (G2) |
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Martina Moyne (G2) – co-advised with Donal Holland at UCD |
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Jinsoo Kim (G3) |
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Ciaran O’Neill (G3) |
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Evelyn Park (G3) |
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Sangjun Lee (G4) |
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Brendan Quinlivan (G4) |
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Jaehyun Bae (G5) |
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Fionnuala Connolly (G6) – co-advised with Katia Bertoldi |
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Ye Ding (G6) |
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Joshua Gafford (G6) |
Research Staff and Wyss Staff Collaborators
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Maria Athanassiu Electrical Engineer |
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Lauren Baker Research Fellow |
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Sara Berndt Research Fellow |
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Christine Bibeau Research Physical Therapist |
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Dabin Choe Research Fellow |
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Asa Eckert Erdheim Robotics Engineer |
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Dr. Ignacio Galiana Robotics Engineer |
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Taylor Greenberg Goldy Research Fellow |
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Max Herman Software Engineer |
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Brice Iwangou Electrical Research Assistant |
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Dr. Nikolaos Karavas Controls Engineer |
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Pawel Kudzia Research Fellow |
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Katarzyna Matlak Research Fellow |
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Nicolas Menard Research Fellow |
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Patrick Murphy Electromechanical Engineer |
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Kathleen O'Donnell Industrial Designer |
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Dorothy Orzel Pattern Maker |
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David Perry Staff Engineer |
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Nathan Phipps |
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Dr. Dmitry Popov |
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Mike Rouleau Electromechanical Engineer |
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Danielle Ryan Functional Apparel Designer |
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David Van Story Visiting Researcher |
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Ruth Peña Velasco Research Fellow |
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Diana Wagner Functional Apparel Designer |
Visiting Graduate Students
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Sven Engelhardt RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
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William Whyte RCSI/TCD, Dublin, Ireland |
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Roman Heimgartner EPFL, Switzerland |
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Jan Meyer ETH, Switzerland |
Undergraduate Students
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Jan Bruedigam TU Munich, Germany |
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Julia Davis |
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Anthony Bogachev |
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Adham Meguid |