Cyanobacterial biotechnological applications ( e.g., biofuel production) require increased productivity to be economically-competitive with current production methods. Daniel Ducat, where she investigates the basic mechanisms of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria with the goal to improve their photosynthetic efficiency. Santos Merino currently works as a postdoctoral research associate in the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory in the laboratory of Dr. In 2019, she received an Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Cantabria for the exceptional quality of the results generated in her dissertation.ĭr. María received her MS degree in 2011 from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain and her PhD in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine in 2017 from the University of Cantabria, Spain. It was at this point when she first had contact with a fundamental research project, working as a research assistant in the genetics unit in the Faculty of Veterinary (University of León, Spain). María Santos Merino received her BS degree in Biotechnology from the University of León, Spain in 2010. She also serves as a reviewer for the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference and several journals such as Computers in Biology and Medicine and Journal of Applied Physiology etc.ĭr. Recently, she helped the department to organize campus visit for potential PhD candidates. Fan is actively involved in the service in the ME Department. Lee) in the NSF-funded Advanced Computational Research Experience Summer Research Experience program at MSU.ĭr. She will also be co-mentoring an undergraduate student this summer (with Dr. Lik Chuan Lee) a PhD student (Yuexing, Sun) for three years and two undergraduate students (Chenghan Cai and Haosen Sun) at MSU. Fan has been co-mentoring (with her postdoc advisor Dr. Additionally, she gave a guest lecture of her PhD research work on meshless methods in the ME graduate level “Finite Element Method” class (ME 872) in this March.ĭr. She was selected to give oral presentations of her research in academic conferences. Fan has published her work in high-impact physiology and computational journals (e.g., American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology). This is an important step towards developing an effective treatment for the currently incurable pulmonary hypertension.ĭr. Fan’s research will help shed light on the progression of right heart failure in pulmonary hypertension. Fan to investigate the role of right heart coronary blood flow (perfusion) in pulmonary hypertension using a combination of computational modeling and large animal experiments, which has been largely overlooked. She is currently focused on developing multi-scale and multi-physics subject-specific computational models that are informed by experimental/clinical data to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and help design/optimize treatments. Her research interests are in the broad areas of solid mechanics, numerical methods development, biomechanics and biomedical engineering.
Prior to coming to United States, she received her PhD degree in computational mechanics from Durham University in the United Kingdom. She was awarded the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship in April 2021. Lei Fan is an American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Michigan State University (MSU).
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