People
The people behind the work.
Principal investigators
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About MazdakProf Mazdak Ghajari
Professor of Brain Biomechanics · Director, HEAD Lab
Brain injury biomechanics · Computational modelling
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About ClaireDr Claire Baker
Schmidt AI for Science Research Fellow
Autotriage in road traffic collisions · Multibody dynamics modelling
Research staff
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About LucasDr Lucas Low
Research Associate
Injury biomechanics · Computational human body modelling
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About WilliamDr William Dawber
Research Associate
Brain injury biomechanics · Impact mechanics and simulation
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About EmilyDr Emily Yik Kwan Chan
Research Associate
Head trauma biomechanics · Surrogate modelling
PhD students
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About VahidVahid Darvishi
PhD Student
Brain biomechanics · Subject-specific head modelling
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About ElenaElena Koumantou
PhD student
Injury biomechanics · Musculoskeletal biomechanics
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About ChenChen Xie
PhD Student
Physics-informed Machine Learning · Computational Biomechanics
Alumni
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About AlasdairDr Alasdair Mackay
Former PhD student
Brain injury biomechanics · Helmet performance and design
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About RachelRachel Tan
Former Research Assistant
Injury biomechanics · Head trauma
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About XianchengDr Xiancheng Yu
Former Research Associate (and former PhD student); now Lecturer in Brain Biomechanics, University of Sheffield
Biomechanics of blast traumatic brain injury · New helmet test methods
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About FlorenceDr Florence Leong
Former Research Associate (primary affiliation: Morph Lab)
Computational modelling of tissue biomechanics · Surgical robotics
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About SiamakDr Siamak Khosroshahi
Former Research Associate
Multiscale computational modelling of vascular injury · Design of personal protective equipment
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About PetrosDr Petros Siegkas
Former Research Associate
Traumatic brain injury · Protective equipment
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About FadyDr Fady F. Abayazid
Former PhD student
Energy absorbing systems · Personal protective equipment
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About KarlDr Karl (Gus) Zimmerman
Former PhD student (primary affiliation: Brain Sciences)
Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury in sporting collisions
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About HarryDr Harry Duckworth
Former PhD student
Computational modelling of traumatic vascular injury · Finite element analysis
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About AdrianaDr Adriana M. Azor
Former PhD student
Blast traumatic brain injury · Neuroimaging analysis methods for subject-level analysis
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About HazelDr Hazel May
Former PhD student (primary affiliation: Brain Sciences)
Biomechanics of traumatic brain injury · Animal models of TBI
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About RichardDr Richard Pangonis
Former PhD student
High rate mechanical testing of brain tissue · Blast traumatic brain injury
Master and Undergraduate Students
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Luka Hinton
MEng Design Engineering
2026
HIPER helmet rating programme: new test rig design
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Zaynab Karzazi
MEng Design Engineering
2026
HIPER helmet rating programme: communication of rating
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Andria Ioannides
MEng Design Engineering
2025-26
Computational reconstruction of child cyclist collisions, towards child-specific helmet test conditions
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Zhuoxiaoyue Wang
MEng Design Engineering
2025-26
Towards uncertainty-aware TBI decision support: a model-agnostic conformal prediction framework for ML-based brain strain prediction in contact sports
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Balvinder Kaur Dhillon
MSc Biomedical Engineering
2025-26
Subject-specific modelling of ventricular displacement in normal pressure hydrocephalus using machine learning
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Xiyu Zhang
MEng Design Engineering
2024-25
Toward real-time brain strain prediction: interpretable machine learning for sports-related head impacts
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Pranav Binulal
MSc Design Engineering
2024-25
Evaluating anatomical and sex-based variations in bicycle helmet safety using finite element modelling
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Amelia Bryant
MEng Design Engineering
2023-24
Design of a novel biofidelic headform with articulating mandible for testing instrumented mouthguards
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Benjamin Lovell
MEng Design Engineering
2023
HIPER helmet rating programme: brand and web design
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Saian Patel
MEng Design Engineering
2023
HIPER helmet rating programme: cyclists survey and helmet testing
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Claudia Moreno
MEng Design Engineering
2023
Industrial helmet testing protocol
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Alberto Montemiglio
MEng Design Engineering
2021-22
Occupant safety in autonomous vehicles: influence of CAV-specific crash variables
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Premal Gadhia
MEng Design Engineering
2021-22
The biomechanics of heading in football, an experimental study
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Pasinee Posirisuk
MEng Design Engineering
2020-21
Computational prediction of head-ground impact kinematics in e-scooter falls
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Nikolaus Wischmann
MRes Neurotechnology
2020-21
Computational modelling of biomechanics to predict the occurrence of cerebral microbleeds and assess the mitigating effect of helmets
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Joo Kim
MRes Experimental Neuroscience
2020-21
Chasing CTE – an investigation of American football head impacts
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Syed Omer Ali Quadri
MEng Design Engineering
2019
HEAD Lab logo design
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Helen Lai
MRes Experimental Neuroscience
2018-19
Linking patterns of biomechanical strain in brain tissue and blood biomarkers after mild traumatic brain injury in professional ice hockey players