Can you all please welcome Dr Himadri Gupta to the School. As from 1st October Himadri is our new Lecturer in Biomaterials.

Before starting at QMUL, he was Research Group Leader “Mineralized Tissues” at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany), working within the Biomaterials Department, from 2003 – 2008.

He obtained his PhD in "Phase Segregation and Rafting in Ni-base Superalloys: Models and Experiments" at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) in 2000, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science (Austrian Academy of Sciences) at Leoben, Austria from 2000 – 2002.

His research expertise includes structure – function relations in hierarchically ordered biological systems, and has worked on bone, tendons and cartilage as well as wood cells. His specific interests include: investigating the material origins of bone fracture using in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction combined with mechanical testing; application of spatially resolved microbeam X-ray diffraction and scattering to investigate graded biocomposites at the molecular and nanometer length scales; development of specialized micromechanical techniques to look at hierarchically structured biomaterials in their native state; multiscale modelling of bone and tendon mechanics at the fibrillar level.