Director

•  James B. Grotberg, Ph.D., M.D.

Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Surgery
Director, NASA Bioscience and Engineering Institute

2123 Carl A. Gerstacker Building

2200 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099

Phone: (734) 936-3834

Fax: (734) 936-1905
Email: grotberg_at_umich_dot_edu

Research Fellows

• Shiyao Bian, Ph.D. (Mech.E.)

The University of Michigan (Ph.D.)

Chinese Academy of Sciences (M.S.E)

Shanghai JiaoTong University (B.S.)

Phone (734) 763-7871
Email: sbian_at_umich_dot_edu
Research: Clearance of mucus plug in the lungs and micro-PIV measurements of airway closure plug flows  

• Cheng-Feng Tai, Ph.D. (Mech. & Aero. E.)

The University of Florida (Ph.D., M.S.E.)

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (M.S.)

National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan (B.S.)

Phone (734) 763-7871
Email: petertai_at_umich_dot_edu
Research: CFD in airway closure by solving N-S equations in multiphase flows

• Parsa Zamankhan, Ph.D. (Mech.E)

Clarkson University (Ph.D.)

Shiraz University, Iran (M.S.E.)

University of Tehran, Iran (B.S.)

Phone (734) 763-7871
Email: parsa_at_umich_dot_edu
Research: CFD of pulmonary plugs with Non-Newtonian fluid properties.

Alumni

• Joseph C. Anderson, Ph.D., University of Washington
  
• Steven W. Benintendi, Ph.D., University of Dayton
• Michael S. Borgas, Ph.D., CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Pollution Dispersion Team
• Joeseph L. Bull, Ph.D.,  University of Michigan
• Karen Cassidy, Ph.D.,  SmartSignal Corporation, Application Engineer
• Kit Yan Chan, Ph.D., Hong Kong 
• David Eckmann, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania
• Hideki Fujioka, Ph.D., Center for Computational Science, Tulane University
• Donald Gaver, III, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering Department, Tulane University
• David A. Godleski, Department of Mathematics, Loyola University
  
• Rich Haber, Ph.D., Filtronetics, Inc., Research and Development, rhfiltro@aol.com
• David Halpern, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama
• Peter Howell, Ph.D., Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford
• Dongeun Huh, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
• Oliver Jensen, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Nottingham, oliver.jensen@nottingham.ac.uk
• Jeff Katstra, M.S.E., AIR Inc., a division of Alkermes, Inc. Cambridge, MA
• Gavin Larose, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
• Julie Moriarty, Ph.D., Northwestern University
• Ryan Patterson, M.S.E., Bard Access Systems, Product Development Engineer
• Barb Ressler, Ph.D., Department of Engineering, Messiah College
• Steve Ross, M.S.E.
• Jeffrey R. Sachs, Ph.D., Merck,
• Rex Shea, Ph.D., Biomedical Science Department, General Motors Research Laboratories
• Vinod Suresh, Ph.D., Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland
• Melody A. Swartz, Ph.D., Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• Sarah Waters, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford
• H.H. Wei, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering,  National Cheng Kung University
• Ying Zheng, Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
• Jennifer Zierenberg, Ph.D., St. Louis, MO

Link

Professor Takayama's Lab