Student Name: Thurga Navasaleen
Institution: UCL
Supervisors: Professor Rebecca Shipley and Professor Derek Hill
I am a first-year PhD student at UCL. Prior to this, I completed my BEng at King’s College London in Biomedical Engineering, followed by my MSc at University College London in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. I joined the Nanoengineered Systems Lab at UCL as an MSc student for my research project and dissertation, and currently remain a part of that lab.
My research interests span the healthcare field and the cross-section of engineering and technology there, from tissue regeneration to diagnostics development. My primary research interests at the moment are force-sensing and phantom models with applications in surgical training and workflow.