Research Programme
Four enduring themes organise my work in medical engineering and computational design. Each begins with a clinically meaningful question and connects imaging, mechanics, modelling, design, manufacturing and validation.
02 — SPINE HEALTH & FRACTURE-RISK PREDICTION
How can routinely acquired imaging reveal clinically useful biomechanical risk?
The work integrates opportunistic CT biomarkers, automated vertebral segmentation and mesh generation, scalable CT-to-FE pipelines, fracture-load estimation and metastatic-spine biomechanics. The emphasis is automation without losing biological or mechanical meaning.
CURRENT DIRECTIONS
Automated vertebral FE setup · BoneMesh · material-group reduction · opportunistic fracture risk · metastatic-spine models
CLINICAL VALUE
Earlier risk identification, more consistent analysis, and better evidence for intervention.
04 — ASSISTIVE SYSTEMS FOR FUNCTION & CARE
How can engineering extend function while respecting comfort, context and real use?
This theme includes prosthetic sockets and upper-limb devices, knee-unloader braces, smart hydrocephalus shunts, scanner-compatible CPR systems, rehabilitation monitoring and wearable care technologies.
01 — BONE-HEALING DIGITAL TWINS
How can we predict and guide healing for an individual patient?
This programme combines patient-specific mechanobiology, adaptive tissue models, angiogenesis, uncertainty quantification, and reduced-order prediction. Current work includes BoneMesh, PBMGA workflows, mechanobiological fracture-healing models and implant dynamization.
METHODS
CT and micro-CT · finite-element modelling · mechanoregulation · uncertainty analysis · surrogate modelling
TRANSLATIONAL AIM
Move from retrospective simulation toward clinically interpretable digital twins that support treatment choice and device design.
03 — PATIENT-SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS
How much personalisation is enough to improve function, reliability and affordability?
Projects span interlocking osteotomy reconstruction, laser-based bone resection, CF-PEEK fracture plates, meniscal implants, surgical guides and dynamic bone-healing devices. Pragmatic customisation links patient anatomy to robust design and advanced manufacturing.
CURRENT DIRECTIONS
Non-planar osteotomy mechanics · interlocking reconstruction · fracture fixation · meniscal solutions · focused-ultrasound processing
DESIGN PRINCIPLE
Personalise where it changes clinical value; standardise where it improves access and manufacture.
CURRENT DIRECTIONS
Comfort-driven prosthesis design · soft robotics · rehabilitation monitoring · wearable sensing · clinically grounded co-design
HUMAN FACTOR
Extreme users, clinicians and lived experience are treated as sources of engineering insight, not an afterthought.
FROM PROGRAMME TO PROJECT
Funding supports the work, but does not define its intellectual structure. Individual grants, collaborations, publications, supervision projects and technology-transfer outcomes sit within these four themes—allowing the programme to remain coherent as specific projects begin and end.