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Clare Canal is a doctoral track student in the Department of
Biomedical Engineering and is a recipient of a NSF Graduate Fellowship. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from Union College in 2001, and is currently pursuing the use of various imaging techniques for studying cartilage
deformation. Clare is a native New Yorker, originally from Brooklyn, and also enjoys spending time at Willoughby Lake in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Clare just finished running her third New York City Marathon with her husband Joe on November 4th. |
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Matteo Caligaris is an aspiring doctoral student in the mechanical engineering department. He received his BS in mechanical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino and a Diplome d'Etudes Superieures at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon. Also he recently got his MS and his MPhil. In his spare time he is interested in Italian politics, trains Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and plays squash with Eric. His lifetime goal is to become a better person and to spend a lot of time with his fiance'. Matteo's Website at Columbia |
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Eric Lima is a doctoral student in the BME department. He is an active member of the Cellular Engineering Lab (Director: Prof. Clark Hung) working on cartilage tissue engineering. Eric wishes he could have a desk in the new MBL, which is the only BME lab on the Morningside campus featuring WINDOWS!!! Eric has two undergraduate degrees (Environmental Studies from Bard and Mechanical Engineering from Cooper Union). |
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Mike Albro always has a permanent smile. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Binghamton in 2003. Mike loves working with cells and beads in the dark. Mike grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn and because of his suffering from a deep separation anxiety from the comforts of home he moved back home. He now suffers instead from his hour plus commute everyday.
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Michael Kaplun is a doctoral student in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Mike (a.k.a. Misha) received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
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Vikram Rajan is a doctoral student in the department of Mechanical Engineering. He recieved his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering at Anna Univeristy in Madras, India. Vikram is our resident movie and trivia buff, and he also does some FEM.
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Dr. Nadeen Chahine is currently working as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
She finished her PhD with us in May of 2006 and received her B.S. in BME from Boston University. During her time here, she collaborated with the Cellular Engineering
Lab, to research (a) the mechanical beahvior of articular cartilage using fluoresence microscopy, (b) the osmotic pressure contributions of proteoglycans to cartilage stiffness, (c) the role of solute transport in tissue engineering of cartilage and (d) the viability of chondrocytes in compressed cartilage. |
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Dr. Ines M. Basalo recieved her PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in February of 2006, her M.S. from Columbia University in 2000 and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar
in Caracas in 1998. While here, Ines worked on the developement of a
new finite deformation constitutive model for articular cartilage and was involved in experimental
work on the measurement of interstitial fluid pressure in articular cartilage. Ines enjoys baking cookies and going
to the symphony with her husband Paco and playing tennis (and squash on raining days) with Nadeen. |
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Dr. Seonghun Park recently accepted a faculty position at Pusan National University in South Korea. Before moving back home to South Korea, Seonghun worked as a post doc at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, under the direction of Dr. Peter Torzilli. Seonghun received his PhD from the Department of
Mechanical Engineering in 2005. His thesis work was primarily focused on the interstitial fluid flow-dependent and flow-independent mechanical and tribological response of articular cartilage. Seonghun and his family are originally from South Korea.
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Dr. Ramaswamy Krishnan is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow in the School of Public Health at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2004. His primary research in the MBL involved the role of interstitial fluid pressurization in articular cartilage lubrication. He is originally from India and hails from the country of Oman.
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Dr.Michael A. Soltz received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in the fall of 2000. He served as a postdoctoral fellow in the following year investigating anisotropic and tribological behavior of articular cartilage. He also participated in research in Tissue Engineering in collaboration with the Cellular Engineering Lab.
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Victoria Wei is currently with Accenture doing consulting work in NYC. She received her M.S. from the BME department at Columbia in 2005 and her B.S. from Cooper
Union in New York City in 2004. Victoria is a very energetic and gregarious individual who likes to get her hair done at Bumble and Bumble .
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Chrissi Schwaller was a Masters student with us in '05-'06 in the department of Mechanical Engineering after a five year working stint in the orthopaedics industry in Switzerland. She received her B.S. in BME from Johns Hopkins University in 2000.
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Daniel Ginat returned to the BME department as an M.S. student. He received his B.S. from BME in 2001, and has since completed his M.D. at NYU. Along with his work in the MBL, Daniel is also involved in ultrasound research with Dr. Konofagou.
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James Walker Raistrick is currently working for Stryker in Switzerland. He received his Masters from the department of Biomedical Engineering in 2003. His research at the MBL involved tensile testing of shoulder tendons and was the proud sponsor of the 1st annual Vision Tools Day. J.W. was a champion to all poor graduate students during his time here. |
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Adam Mantzaris is currently working at Stryker in Mahwah, NJ. He received his masters in BME in 2002 and his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University in 2001. |
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Noah Meade completed Master's research in the MBL in the 2002-2003 academic year. |
