Our Team
The academia must strive to diversify with a more inclusive approach, encouraging and embracing different socio-economic, ethnic, gender-based groups, among others, and gain a bigger pool of outlooks.
Richa Pandey
Dr. Richa Pandey
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Principle Investigator: Wearable and Bio-integrated Technologies Lab
Dr. Richa Pandey did her PhD in Physical Electronics at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where she developed wearable biosensor technology and received the prestigious Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher Fellowship. In Tel Aviv, she also devised a plant health monitoring sensor; placed on a leaf, the sensor can detect threats from pests and monitor water intake—highly useful applications in precision agriculture. Dr. Pandey’s postdoctoral work at McMaster University devised point-of-care (PoC) molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases, including a saliva test for COVID-19 and a test for urinary tract infections (UTI) that rapidly detects the presence of bacteria without the need to culture the sample. Her research work has launched two start-ups and has been licensed to one Canadian companies. At University of Calgary, she is establishing Wearable and Bio-integrated Technologies Lab with a vision to create disruptive technologies for healthcare applications.
Mohammad Janghorban
Graduate Student (MSc.), Department of Biomedical Engineering
Mohammad Janghorban received his B.Sc. in material science and engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology. He worked on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides semiconductors (i.e., MoS2) and studied their nucleation and growth on various substrates using chemical vapor deposition. Currently, Mohammad is pursuing his M.Sc. in biomedical engineering at the University of Calgary in 2022 where he is developing wearable biosensors.
Sara Kazemi
Graduate Student (MSc.), Department of Biomedical Engineering
Sara completed her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. Her undergrad research involved utilizing specific bacteria, which obtain their energy by oxidizing iron or sulfur, to recover metals from electronic waste. Later, she joined Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology to develop an estrogen-releasing hydrogel for the treatment of Asherman's syndrome. As an M.Sc. student in Biomedical Engineering, she is excited to incorporate flexible electronics into nervous tissue models to enable real-time investigation of neurodegenerative diseases. In her free time, you can either find her on a mountain somewhere or reading sci-fi/fantasy literature and daydreaming about being a medieval warrior.
Undergraduate Student, Neuroscience Program.
Irvyne Aradanas is entering her second year of undergraduate studies in Neuroscience at the University of Calgary. This summer, she will be working in Wearable and Bio-integrated Technologies Lab to investigate the development of a functional nucleic acid based wearable biosensor for real time monitoring of stress biomarkers.