People

Lorna Gibson Professor Lorna J. Gibson is the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.  Her research interests focus on the mechanical behaviour of materials with a  cellular structure, such as engineering honeycombs and foams, tissue engineering scaffolds and natural materials such as wood, cork, trabecular bone and plant parenchyma.

Room: 8-135
Telephone: 617 253-7107
Fax: 617 258-6275 
Email: ljgibson@mit.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Students
Biraja

Biraja Kanungo is a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering working on mechanical behaviour of mineralized and non-mineralized collagen-GAG scaffolds for bone and cartilage regeneration.

Room: 8-102
Telephone: 617 253 5299
Email: kanungo@mit.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Undergraduate Students
Justin

Justin D.ߜ Breucop is a freshman at MIT working on a UROP gathering and plotting data for natural cellular materials such as wood and trabecular bone.

Room: 8-102
Telephone: 617 253 5299
Email: jbreucop@mit.edu
Elaine

Elaine Lee is a senior in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering working on a UROP with Biraja Kanungo on the mechanical behaviour of collagen-based scaffolds.

Room: 8-102
Telephone: 617 253 5299
Email: ielaine@mit.edu
Administrative Assistant

Diane Rose Diane Rose

Room: 8-135
Telephone: 617 253 8098
Email: drose@mit.edu