Prof Julien Gautrot
PhD
Research Group Members
Postdoctoral Research Assistants
 DI CIò, Stefania |  BOSCH FORTEA, Minerva |  MEGONE, William |
Current PhD Students
| Name | Thesis Title |
| ALEXIS, Cardee | Study of Liquid-liquid interfaces |
| BALANGTAA, Jacob | Self-assembled peptide droplet interfaces for simple screening of stem cell microenvironments and micromanipulation of colonies |
| BERTEI, Claudia | Physical, mechanical and structural properties of organogels for oral care application |
| CARTA, Davide | Studentship: 2021 SEMS QMRS HA |
| CHANG, Lan | Polymer brush vectors for 3D RNA delivery |
| CHRYSANTHOU, Alexandra | Study of the mechanical properties of liquid-liquid interfaces |
| DA SAN MARTINO, Chiara | Design of an organ-on-a-chip model of soft-hard tissue interfaces |
| DOWDEN, Alice | Silicone elastomers and 3D printing |
| HAYLER-POUNTNEY, Daniel | 2021 SEMS Mini-CDT in Molecular Biochemical Engineering -JEG |
| HÃRAULT, Sean | Development of a new High Throughput CRISPR platform for detection of microRNA |
| JONES, Christian | Design of a microfluidics integrated microvascularised human skin-on-a-chip tissue model |
| KANSO, Hassan | Biophysics of Self-Assembled Protein Nanosheets for Stem Cell-Based Biotechnologies |
| KAUR, Anureet | Self Healing Elastomers |
| MARCIANO, Daniele | Design of synthetic nanostructured hydrogel to regulate microvascularisation |
| MOJARES, Elijah | Design of nanosheets and microdroplet technologies |
| PADILLA LOPATEGUI, Soraya | Development of blood interactive self-assembling systems |
| QU, Fengjin | TBC |
| QUADIR, Fauzia | Bonding of soft tissues to hydroxyapatite |
| QURESHI, Saba Waqar | Organ-on-chip platform for biomechanical stimulation |
| TAGHI, Naoual | Extraction of lipids from algae suspensions for biofuel applications |
| WARD, Matthew | Cardiomyocytes, Mechanobiology, Rigidity sensing, Micropatterning, Traction Force Measurement |
PhD Graduates
| Name | Thesis Title |
| PENG, Lihui | Culture of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Nanosheets Assembled at the Surface of Liquid Microcarriers (2021) |
| ABDOUNI, Yamin | Novel Glycopolymer Architectures for Biological Applications: A Supramolecular Approach (2020) |
| COZENS, Edward Jonathan | Design of Biomaterials for Soft Tissue Adhesion (2020) |
| HE, Shiping | A Novel Role for microRNA-214 in Inflammatory Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation from Adventitia Stem/progenitor Cells and Arterial Remodelling (2020) |
| WU, Linke | Hyaluronic acid-based peptide-functionalised engineered soft matrices via thiol-ene coupling (2020) |
| BUTTERWORTH, Emma | Nanofabrication and Engineering of Gene Delivery Vectors (2019) |
| DIBBLE, Matthew | Developing a novel organ-on-a-chip model to study ovarian cancer (2019) |
| LUO, Piaopiao | Mircrofluidic-based Model of the Microvasculature to Study the Impact of Glycocalyx on Angiogenesis (2019) |
| MEGONE, William | Design and Characterisation of Soft Biomaterials and Interfaces for Bio-Adhesives and Cell Culture (2019) |
| YOU, Yaqi | Biomaterials Design for Epicardial Placement of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair (2019) |
| BROOKES, Oliver | Mechanoregulation of nucleus architecture and genome function in pluripotent stem cells (2018) |
| LI, Danyang | Cationic polymer brush coated nanoparticles for gene delivery (2018) |
| NGUYEN, Khai | Silicone Cross-linking Chemistries: From Kinetics to Dynamics of Mechanical Properties for Biomedical Applications (2018) |
| TANG, Pei | Generating modular synthetic proteins (2018) |
| COLAK, Burcu | Micro-patterning of peptide-based biomaterials (2017) |
| DI CIÃ, Stefania | Nano-scale regulation of mechano-transduction and stem cell fate decision (2017) |
| KONG, Dexu | Nanoscale engineering of interfaces to control stem cell behaviour and mechano-transduction (2017) |
| ZHANG, Xi | Nanoengineered electrospun fibre for drug release and cell culture (2017) |
| KRISHNAMOORTHY, Mahentha | Developing Cationic Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery (2016) |