Staff Profile

Elias Hasan is a research assistant transitioning to associate specialising in biofabrication with a focus on product design and manufacturing. He gained extensive knowledge in additive manufacturing, particularly in FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) and SLA (Stereolithography) technologies. Throughout his PhD program, Mr Hasan worked with Dr Ana Marina Ferreira Duarte and Dr Piergiorgio Gentile where he received and developed an in-depth understanding in design and manufacturing proccess and design prototyping. His research, which is centred on skin wound healing and product development, has provided him with significant experience in bioengineering.

Mr. Hasan utilised his background in electromechanical engineering to advance prototyping towards engineering-driven testing and validation, focusing on fluid flow, aesthetics, ergonimics, and spray distribution, followed by physico-chemical and biological properties validation. His interdisciplinary approach focuses on the development of therapeutic and regenerative skin coatings, leveraging advanced engineering techniques to potentially transition his work towards enhancing skin wound healing.

Academic Qualifications:

• PhD (under examination): Engineering a Layer-by-Layer Portable Device for the Production of Therapeutic and Regenerative Skin Coatings - 2020 - Ongoing

• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University - December 2016

• BSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma - May 2015

Previous Positions:

• 2021-2022  EPSRC RiHN Feasibility Studies: "Point-of-care of skin wounds via automated therapeutic Layer-by-Layer coating". (RA) Grant reference EP/T014970/1 More info

• 2017-2020 Teaching Assistant (B) at Kuwait University

Research interest:

• Medical product development, focusing on therapeutic devices and biomaterials

• Integration of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and systematic design (SD) to streamline product development, ensuring alignment with customer needs and product quality

• Development of advanced biomaterial and cell therapy systems through engineering-driven methodologies

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis for optimising and characterising biomedical applications

• Application of Layer-by-Layer (LbL) assembly in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Research Funding

• 2022-2025 Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) under project code "CB22-63MM-01"

• 2020-2024 Newcastle University Overseas Research Fund

Award

• 2022 Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) Scientific Mission Grant Award to attend the European Society for Biomaterials Conference

Patent

• Hasan E., Ferreira-Duarte A.M., Gentile P. (2024) hold a UK Patent application Number 2412970.2