Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

SBHSE Directories

Professors

Heather Clark

Heather Clark
School Director and Professor, Olin Endowed Chair

Research Interests
Nanosensors, chemical imaging, nanoscale contrast agent development for MRI, fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging

Lab: The Clark Lab

[email protected]

Vikram Kodibagkar

Vikram Kodibagkar
Professor

Research Interests
MRI probe and technique development for cellular, molecular and metabolic imaging

Lab: ProBE Lab

[email protected]
(480) 965-4635
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181D

Thurmon Lockhart

Thurmon Lockhart
Professor, MORE Foundation Professor of Life in Motion

Research Interests
Locomotion, aging, falling, gait and posture, and computational biodynamics and biomechanics, wearable biomedical systems.

Lab: Locomotion Lab

[email protected]
(480) 965-1499
Tempe Campus, ECA 323

Marco Santello

Marco Santello
Professor, Fulton Professor of Neural Engineering

Research Interests
Neural control of movement, sensorimotor learning, neuromodulation, neuroimaging, prosthetics

Lab: Neural Control of Movement Laboratory

[email protected]
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281J

Sarah Stabenfeldt

Sarah Stabenfeldt
Associate Director and Professor

Research Interests
Regenerative medicine, targeted theranostics, neurotrauma

Lab: Stabenfeldt Lab

[email protected]
(480) 965-8336
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281E

Xiao Wang

Xiao Wang
Professor

Research Interests
Synthetic and systems biology

Lab: Xiao Laboratory

[email protected]
(480) 727-8696
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 265

Associate Professors

David Brafman

David Brafman
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Pluripotent stem cells, neurodegenerative disease, developmental biology, regenerative medicine biomanufacturing, gene editing

[email protected]
(480) 727-2859
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 231

Christopher Buneo

Christopher Buneo
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Neural engineering, neuromodulation, neurorehabilitation, neurophysiology, sensorimotor control

Lab: Visuomotor Learning Lab

[email protected]
(480) 727-2556
Tempe Campus, ECG 329

Emma Frow

Emma Frow
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Bioengineering,policy and society;governing emerging biotechnologies

[email protected]
(480) 727-7798
Tempe Campus, ECG 343

Bradley Greger

Bradley Greger
Associate Professor, SK Foundation Professor

Research Interests
Neural Engineering, movement disorders, vision restoration, seizure disorders

Lab: Neural Engineering Laboratory

[email protected]
(480) 965-9134
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181G

Claire Honeycutt

Claire Honeycutt
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Clinical Biomechanics, Motor Control, Stroke, Falls, Orthotics
Lab: Human Mobility Lab

[email protected]
(480) 965-8453
Tempe Campus, BDH 214

Jeff Kleim

Jeff Kleim
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Neural plasticity, neurorehabilitation, stroke

[email protected]
(480) 727-8354
Tempe Campus, ECG 327

Jit Muthuswamy

Jit Muthuswamy
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Neural Interfaces, neuromodulation, BioMEMS

Lab: Neural Microsystems Laboratory

[email protected]
(480) 965-1599
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181A

Mehdi Nikkhah

Mehdi Nikkhah
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Micro and nanoscale technologies, disease modeling, tissue engineering, cancer, tumor microenvironment models

Lab: Nikkhah Laboratory

[email protected]
(480) 965-0339
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181J

Vincent Pizziconi

Vincent Pizziconi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Medical device design innovation & regulation, cell & tissue regenerative medicine products, biomanufacturing, bioinspired & biomimetic complex adaptive biosystems, space bioengineering
Lab: Laboratory of BioInspired Complex Adaptive Systems

[email protected]
(480) 965-1071
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 225D

Rosalind Sadleir

Rosalind Sadleir
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Neuro imaging and neural activity detection, dynamic physiological monitoring, computational modeling

Lab: Neuro-electricity Lab

[email protected]
(480) 727-9790
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281L

Sydney Schaefer

Sydney Schaefer
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Motor control and learning, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neurorehabilitation

Lab: Motor Rehabilitation and Learning Lab

[email protected]
(480) 727-6651
Tempe Campus, BDH (PEBE) 222

Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Imaging and biomarker discovery, innovating point-of-care diagnostics

Lab: Smith Laboratory

[email protected]
(480) 727-8988
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181E

Xiaojun Tian

Xiaojun Tian
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Systems biology, synthetic biology, nonlinear dynamics gene circuits, EMT

Lab: Tian Lab

[email protected]
(480) 727-0023
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 595

Stephen Helms Tillery

Stephen Helms Tillery
Associate Professor & Fellow of the Lincoln Center for Applies Ethics

Research Interests
Cortical neurophysiology, neural control of movement, neuroprosthetics, neural engineering ethics

[email protected]
(480) 965-0753
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181H

Brent Vernon

Brent Vernon
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering

Lab: Biomaterials Laboratory

[email protected]
(480) 965-0929
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 281H

Shaopeng Wang

Shaopeng Wang
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Biosensors and bioinstrumentations for biomedical applications

Lab: Optical Biosensing Lab

[email protected]
(480) 727-7081
Tempe Campus, Biodesign AL1-30A

Assistant Professors

Madeline Andrews

Madeline Andrews
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Human brain development, stem cells, organoid models, neurodevelopmental disease, neuro-immune interactions, metabolism, cell transplantation

Lab: The Andrews Lab

[email protected]
(602) 543-2200
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 181B

Benjamin Bartelle

Benjamin Bartelle
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Molecular fMRI of neuroinflammation and degeneration, in vivo synthetic biology of reporters sensors and actuators, genetic and biomolecular circuits.

Lab: The BioProtean Lab

[email protected]
(480) 965-2989
Tempe Campus, ISTB1 225C