Graduate Students

Several students from the Biomedical Engineering Program have earned 2024 Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science and from the Program. These honors are awarded to students who are nominated by faculty, staff or fellow students for their outstanding contributions and achievements to the program, the...

Lukas Buecherl is a fourth year PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Program and is earning an Interdisciplinary Quantative Biology (IQ Biology) PhD Certificate designed for students in life sciences, engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics who are interested in joining a network of interdisciplinary faculty and peers in academia...

Emily Miller is a fifth year Biomedical Engineering (BME) PhD student conducting research in Dr. Corey Neu's Soft Tissue Bioengineering Lab. She will defend her dissertation in summer 2024. What brought you to the University of Colorado Boulder and attracted you to the BME program? My path to biomedical engineering...

Isabelle Eskay is a first year Biomedical Engineering (BME) Masters student conducting research in the lab of Dr. Debanjan Mukherjee and is a mid-fielder for the CU womens soccer team. To support the BME community, she has worked as a Course Assistant for the senior design capstone course for both...

Payton Martinez is a third year PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Program and is earning an Interdisciplinary Quantative Biology (IQ Biology) PhD Certificate designed for students in life sciences, engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics who are interested in joining a network of interdisciplinary faculty and peers in academia...

Corrin is the recepient of the Investing in CU Engineering (ICUE) Graduate Fellowship. Corrin, tell us about your research. What is it that you study? Currently, I work in Dr. Maureen Lynch’s mechanobiology laboratory, researching breast cancer bone metastasis. Advanced breast cancer commonly metastasizes to the skeleton, and is incurable...

Chad Healy is a PhD student researching how the brain controls movement in Professor Alaa Ahmed’s lab. He returned to finish his PhD in 2021 after taking a break from his studies to complete an internship with SpaceX.

Eight graduate students are graduating from the Biomedical Engineering Program this spring. Two have earned their doctoral degrees and six have earned master's degrees.

First-year PhD students Juliet Heye and Payton Martinez were awarded the five-year fellowship, which recognizes outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

The collaborative work could boost health and drug advancements by giving researchers a better understanding of primary and secondary radiation forces in multiphase colloidal systems – such as emulsions, foams, membranes and gels.