Meet the Team
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Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood is a Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and the principal investigator of the vBS Lab. He has an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from King’s College London and a PhD in Biofluid Dynamics from University College London.
He also teaches the courses ‘Biomechanics’ (focussing on Biofluids) and ‘Probability & Statistics’ in the Department of Bioengineering.
PhD Students
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Gladys is a PhD student (2023-2027) working on microfluidic models to better replicate the microvasculature and analyse the effect of RBC aggregation and deformability in the blood flow. She graduated from Tecnologico de Monterrey with an BSc (Hons) Biomedical Engineering (2016-2021) and a specialization in Biomedical Microtechnology, and with an MSc Biomedical Engineering (2022-2023) from Imperial College London as part of the British Council Women in STEM programme.
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Ioana is a PhD student (2023-2027) studying the relationship between RBC pathologies and endothelial cell mechanotransduction using vascularized microfluidic chips. She sponsored by the EPSRC. Ioana graduated top of her class from Imperial College with an MEng in Biomedical Engineering (2019-2023), where she received the Governor’s MEng Prize in Bioengineering.
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Raphael is a PhD student (2025–2029) studying how altered red blood cell properties in diabetes mellitus influence the progression of diabetic retinopathy and vision loss, using ex vivo perfused retinal models. He graduated from Imperial College London with an MEng in Biomedical Engineering (2020–2025).
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Maryam is a PhD student looking at developing microfluidic methods to measure RBC mechanical properties and seeing the impact of changing those properties on microvascular flow. She graduated with an MEng in Engineering Science (2018-2022) from the University of Oxford and with an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London (2022-2023) where her MSc project was also in the vBS Lab.
Project Students
Melissa Hunter
MEng student