Graduate students:

Yxi Su, PhD student.
Cultivation and adaptation of the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum to stresses. Microalgae as phytoplankton are the main primary biomass producers and can be used as feedstock to develop a range of products from low to high values to boost a bio- based and more sustainable economy. Therefore, they have gained great interest for their critical role in global food web and ecosystems as well as for their potential applications in industries.

Svava Kristjánsdóttir, PhD student.
Cellulose based Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering.  The purpose of this project is threefold; first to produce a biological cellulose scaffold for tissue engineering applications from novel plants source material, kelp seaweed. Secondly, to test the mechanical properties of the plant based extracellular matrix (ECM) in comparison with animal collagen-based ECM. Thirdly, test the in Vitro and in Vivo cellular ingrowth of the plant-based ECM and compare it to collagen-based ECM

Anna Lára Ármannsdóttir, PhD student
Mechanical design of assistive devices: Evaluating the user’s perspective and the effects on gait biomechanics.  The aim is to evaluate the bio-mechanical and users´ perspective in a case study of a novel Variable Stiffness Prosthetic (VSF) foot at level walking gait during different speeds and during incline and decline walking.

Christophe Lecomte, PhD student
Variable Stiffness Prosthetic Foot.  Prosthetic devices aim to replace a missing limb.  Behind this simple statement, the design, testing, and validation of the devices are complex. Many ESAR prosthetic feet are commercially available and the recently developed bionic prosthesis aim to increase ankle push-off power or ankle joint compliance. The motivation for this work is to propose an alternative device design for a variable sagittal stiffness prosthetic foot. The device shall keep the benefits of existing energy-storing-and-returning devices with the addition of stiffness modulation possibilities and with limited additional mass.

Chadi Barakat, PhD student.
Design and Evaluation of Parallel & Scalable Machine Learning Research in Biomedical Modelling Applications. The concrete medical focus of this Ph.D. studies where ML techniques will be applied in the analysis of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) which is a severe condition that affects around 1 in 10,000 people every year with life threatening consequences. The pathophysiology of ARDS is characterized by bronchoalveolar injury and alveolar collapse (i.e., ‘atelectasis’) following pulmonary trauma or viral infection and is usually associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation. 

Katrín Björk Einarsdóttir, MS student
Mechanical properties of a special biomaterial under different conditions.

Hafsteinn Einar Ágústsson, MS student
Design of specialised equipment in ferrosilicon production. Design improvements, implementation and testing.

Jóhann Ingi Harðarson, MS student
Improved production method of EPS packaging for fish transportation. Design improvements, implementation and testing.

Former Graduate Students:

María Dís Óafsdóttir, MS
Vilhjálmur Grétar Elíasson, MS
Gunes Sinan Gurel, MS
Chadi Barakat, MS
Libardo Antonio Lugo Moreno, MS
Baldur Geir Gunarsson, MS
Aron Kr Albertsson, MS
Ragnhildur Þórarinsdóttir, MS
Zhiqian Yi, PhD
Sigurður Jakob Helgason, MS
Sindri Freyr Ólafsson, MS
Sigríður Anna Ásgeirsdóttir, MS
Craig Maxwell.MS
Hilmar Sigvaldason, MS
Fjóla Jóhannesdóttir, PhD
Benedikt Helgason, PhD
Geir Ágústsson, MS
Helgi Jónsson, MS
Guðjón Grímur Kárason, MS