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 Boston Triathlon | Biodesign Lab 2021 Pumpkin Carving Contest |
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| Biodesign Lab 2019 Bionic 5K | Biodesign Lab 2022 Bionic 5K |
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| Biodesign Lab 2022 Harvard SEAS Commencement | |
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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 an 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. Oluwaseun Araromi Postdoctoral Research Fellow - co-advised with Rob Wood |
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Dr. Richard Nuckols |
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Dr. Franchino Porciuncula Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Hee Doo Yang Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Adam Quirk Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Ben Shih Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Dr. Lucas Gerez Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Graduate Students
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Elizabeth Suitor (G1) |
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Harrison Young (G1) |
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James Arnold (G1) |
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Claire Traweek (G1) |
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Haedo Cho (G2) |
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Philipp Arens (G2) |
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David Farrell (G2) |
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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) |
Research Staff and Wyss Staff Collaborators
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Kinjal Shah Research Fellow |
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Tazzy Cole Functional Apparel Design Research Fellow |
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Francesco Bertacchi Research Fellow |
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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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Nathalie Farster-Degenhardt Functional Apparel Designer (Collaborator) |
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Dr. Ignacio Galiana Robotics Engineer (Collaborator) |
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Chrissy Glover Research Fellow (Collaborator |
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Max Herman Software Engineer |
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Brice Iwangou Electrical Research Assistant (Collaborator) |
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Nicolas Menard Research Fellow (Collaborator) |
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Patrick Murphy Electromechanical Engineer (Collaborator) |
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Kristin Nuckols Occupational Therapist (Collaborator) |
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Dorothy Orzel |
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Dr. Dmitry Popov |
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Mike Rouleau Electromechanical Engineer (Collaborator) |
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Lexine Schumm Research Fellow (Collaborator) |
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Diana Wagner Functional Apparel Designer (Collaborator) |
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Fivos Kavassalis Research Fellow |
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Dr. John Paul Bonadonna Research Occupational Therapist |
Visiting Graduate Students
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Julien Erard (EPFL) |
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Jan Peters (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) |
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Christian Mitsch (EPFL) |
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Eva Debetter (EPFL) |
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Christian Huang (EPFL) |
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Ignacio Novillo (University of Twente) |
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Gregoire Bergamo (EPFL) |
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Jacob Euler-Rolle (ETH Zürich) |
Undergraduate Students
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Megan Coram |
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Ruben Fonseca |
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Truman Jones |
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Aidan Kimberley |
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Ludovico Rollo |
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Lana Wagner |
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Harini Kannan |
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Shekinah Newson |
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Fouzia Raza |