Education

• BA/BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan


• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Berkeley

Expertise

Constitutive modeling and mechanical testing of soft tissues; Cartilage and spine mechanics; Cartilage and bone tissue engineering; Cartilage mechanotransduction; Post-traumatic osteoarthritis; Biotribology; Collagen crosslinking.

Interests

Orthopaedic biomechanics; Soft tissue mechanics; Computational biomechanics; Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; Mechanobiology; Stem cell differentiation; Muskuloskeletal biology and repair.