Meet the Team
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Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood is a Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and the principal investigator of the vBS Lab. He has an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from King’s College London and a PhD in Biofluid Dynamics from University College London.
He also teaches the courses ‘Biomechanics’ (focussing on Biofluids) and ‘Probability & Statistics’ in the Department of Bioengineering.
Postdocs and PhDs
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Daniel is a PhD student (2021-2025) developing a computational, phenomenological model for RBC transport in microvessels, with the aim of understanding how changes in RBC properties due to disease impact microvascular blood flow. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MEng in Engineering (2017-2021).
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Gladys is a PhD student (2023-2027) working on microfluidic models to better replicate the microvasculature and analyse the effect of RBC aggregation and deformability in the blood flow. She graduated from Tecnologico de Monterrey with an BSc (Hons) Biomedical Engineering (2016-2021) and a specialization in Biomedical Microtechnology, and with an MSc Biomedical Engineering (2022-2023) from Imperial College London as part of the British Council Women in STEM programme.
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Ioana is a PhD student (2023-2027) studying the relationship between RBC pathologies and endothelial cell mechanotransduction using vascularized microfluidic chips. She is co-supervised by Dr Claire Higgins and sponsored by the EPSRC. Ioana graduated from Imperial College with an MEng in Biomedical Engineering (2019-2023), where she received the Governor’s MEng Prize in Bioengineering.
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Maryam is a PhD student looking at developing microfluidic methods to measure RBC mechanical properties and seeing the impact of changing those properties on microvascular flow. She graduated with an MEng in Engineering Science (2018-2022) from the University of Oxford and with an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London (2022-2023) where her MSc project was also in the vBS Lab.
Project Students
Amba Sharma
MEng Student
Chang-Syu Chen
MRes Student
Nur Fatihah Mohd Zool Amali
MEng Student
Raf S.J. Phoenix
MEng Student
Sofia Grasselli
Visiting MSc Student