Collaboration is at the heart of good research.

Dr Kedgley supervises many talented students, and has had the good fortune of working with some excellent researchers. Dr Kedgley routinely works with physiotherapists, surgeons, medical practitioners, and other engineers, and is actively seeking collaborators for future projects.

Angela

Norazian

Hind

Mercedes

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Antony

Devi

Yumou

Tai

Miray

Esma

Sun

Mahdi

The Team

Dr Angela Kedgley is a Reader in Biomechanics in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. She researches human biomechanics; her most recent work explores the mechanics of the hand and wrist.

Dr Kedgley obtained her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in Canada, during which she developed a fluoroscopic radiostereometric analysis (RSA) system. While at the University of Western Ontario she worked as a lecturer, teaching orthopaedic biomechanics for three years. She then obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which provided her with the opportunity to work at the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility at the University of British Columbia.

In 2011 she moved to the United Kingdom and took up a position as a Research Associate in the Department of Bioengineering with the Osteoarthritis Centre of Excellence (now the Musculoskeletal Medical Engineering Centre) at Imperial College London. In 2012 she became a Research Fellow and was awarded an Imperial College Research Fellowship in 2013. In 2015 she joined the department as a Lecturer in Biomechanics.

Angela is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Member of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She is also a Fellow of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy).

Angela Kedgley, Principal Investigator

Norazian completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She then worked as a member of academic staff at Universiti Malaysia Perlis for 5 years.

Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, examining the mechanisms of wear for fixed bearing total ankle replacements through imaging, joint motion simulation, and finite element analysis. Her work is being conducted in collaboration with Stryker.

Norazian Abd Razak, Doctoral candidate

Hind is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering. Her research interests lie in finite element modelling of joint replacements for the hand.

Hind received her B.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in 2018, and the M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2021

Hind Alyahya, Doctoral candidate

Mercedes Aramayo Gomes Rezende, Doctoral candidate

Mercedes is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. Her project is on the biomechanics of the wrist in gymnastics, looking at the loading and range of motion of the joint during handstands.

She completed her MEng (Biomedical Engineering) at Imperial College London, where her final year this formed the basis for her PhD project. Within her undergraduate degree she undertook a year in research, where she worked on a project which led to a protocol for the uniformity of performance during the collection of maximum voluntary contraction tasks for the muscles of the forearm.

Antony is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and is enrolled in the EPSRC CDT for Prosthetics and Orthotics programme. He is researching and designing an in vitro gait simulator to evaluate foot and ankle kinematics and kinetics.

Before joining Imperial College London, Antony completed an integrated MEng (Hons) undergraduate degree in Medical Engineering at the University of Surrey. During this, he undertook an Industrial placement year with GlaxoSmithKline.

Antony Crossman, Doctoral candidate

Devi is an MPhil student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. Her project is on the monitoring of orthosis use for hand osteoarthritis. Prior to joining Imperial College London, Devi completed her MEng (Hons) degree in Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London.

Devi Baruni Devanand, MPhil candidate

Yumou is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. She is currently working on the study of thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis, aiming to develop an effective model for the trapezium-metacarpal joint.

She completed two Masters degrees at Imperial, in Biomedical Engineering (MSc with Distinction) and General Structural Engineering, where she investigated biomechanics of wrist and mechanics of various structures. Her Bachelor’s degree of Civil Engineering was obtained from Wuhan University, China.

Yumou Han, Doctoral candidate

Esma is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London.

Esma completed her Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation at Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye. She obtained her first MSc degree in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation in Türkiye, where she investigated the relationship between posture and sexual function in postmenopausal women.

As her interest in technology increased and she was awarded an education scholarship given by the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Türkiye, she completed a second MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Here, she developed a rehabilitation protocol proposal for Soft Robotic Gloves.

Esma Hidayet Lüleci, Doctoral candidate

Tai is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. She is investigating the biomechanical effects of botulinum toxin type A on the upper limb in children with cerebral palsy. Currently, she is working on validating the use of shear wave elastography in upper limb musculature.

Tai completed her BEng (Medical Engineering) at Swansea University, where her final year project was to develop a fully functioning immunosensor capable of detecting an ovarian cancer biomarker. She then went on to complete her MRes (Bioengineering) at Imperial College London, where she carried out a study on neck pain and vertebral angulation of the cervical spine with application of a rigid cervical collar.

Taiwo (Tai) Kelani, Doctoral candidate

Miray is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering. Her PhD project explores the orthopaedic biomechanics of children with neurodisability, including cerebral palsy. She aims to create a quantitative clinical tool that can help assess fracture risk in children with neurodisability.

Miray comes from a mixed background of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London and is undertaking her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Cardiff University. During her medical degree, her award-winning research which looked at bone health in children with neurodisability led to novel findings updating clinical guidelines.

Miray Kirollos, Doctoral candidate

Mahdi is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. His project is the development of a physiological in vitro wrist-hand simulator including multiple extrinsic and intrinsic muscles. This will be utilised in simulation of hand injuries and pathologies and the investigation of the effects of surgical repair on kinematics and kinetics of the hand and wrist.

Before joining Imperial College London, Mahdi completed three year MSc and five year BSc programmes in Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Iran, focussing on the fields of movement analysis and orthopaedic biomechanics. During this time he worked on a new implant-less ACL reconstruction technique and he developed a 3D whole-body posture prediction model for manual material handling activities using machine learning.

A list of Mahdi’s publications can be found on Google Scholar.

Mahdi Mohseni, Doctoral candidate

Kiatbodin (Sun) Wanglertpanich, Doctoral candidate

Sun is a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. His PhD project will apply musculoskeletal modelling to investigate ergonomics of the hand during activities that result in fatigue. In particular he aims to apply to his work to decrease overuse syndrome in musicians. Prior to joining Imperial College London, Sun completed his BEng and MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Kasetsart University, Thailand, MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London and is a Royal Thai Government Scholarship Candidate for his PhD.