Department Directory

Mansoor Amiji
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in Pharmaceutical Sciences & Chemical Engineering Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies
- m.amiji@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3137

Rouzbeh Amini
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport
- r.amini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7688

Javier Apfeld
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Studies how protein networks transmit oxidative information in health and with aging in a simple model organism, the nematode C. elegans.
- j.apfeld@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4495

Ian Armstrong
Lab Operationss & Safety Manager,
Bioengineering - i.armstrong@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8591

Anand Asthagiri
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology
- a.asthagiri@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2996

Joseph Ayers
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Development of underwater robots for civil infrastructure and explosive sensing; neurophysiology and behavior biomimetics
- j.ayers@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370

Ambika Bajpayee
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis
- a.bajpayee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7018

Sumner Barenberg
Professor of the Practice,
Bioengineering Design Medical Implants; Medical Implant Due Diligence; Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomemetics, Polymer Physics; Biodegradation; Interfacial Phenomena, Chemotaxis, Accelerated Aging
- s.barenberg@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805

Anxhela Becolli
Administrative Access Assistant,
Bioengineering - a.becolli@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2031

Chiara Bellini
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Diseases of the cardiovascular system; effects of cellmediated growth and remodeling processes on tissue and organ mechanics
- c.bellini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2550

Sidi A. Bencherif
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering polymer chemistry and engineering; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; drug delivery; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; immunotherapy; immunoengineering; vaccines
- s.bencherif@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7103

Penny Beuning
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering chemical biology and biotechnology; DNA replication and repair; enzyme function
- p.beuning@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2865

Dana Brooks
Research Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization
- brooks@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3352

Ahmed Busnaina
WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics
- busnaina@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2992

Isen Calderon
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Bioengineering - i.calderon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4858

Rebecca L. Carrier
Professor,
Chemical Engineering intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery
- r.carrier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7126

Paul Champion
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering experimental biological physics; inelastic light scattering; ultrafast pump-probe laser spectroscopy; proton tunneling
- p.champion@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5705

Samuel Chung
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering brain cell regeneration, automated microscopy and laser surgery, user-friendly and low-cost fluorescence microscopy

Heather Clark
Professor,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology Optical nanosensors for biological analysis
- h.clark@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3091