Elise Morgan, PhD

 

 

ARROWS Internal Advisory Board Member

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Elise Morgan, PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Boston University

Dr. Elise Morgan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Dr. Morgan received her PhD in 2002 in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, and spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Surgery at Stanford University. Dr. Morgan’s research laboratory focuses on the mechanical behavior and mechanobiology of skeletal tissues at multiple length scales. Both experimental and computational methods are used to explore how the deformation and failure behavior of tissues depend on the tissue microstructure; and conversely, how the differentiation and adaptation of tissues and cells are modulated by their local mechanical environment. To date, Dr. Morgan has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles in these research areas, and she has received research funding from the NIH, the NSF, and multiple industry sources and private foundations. She is the recipient of several research and teaching awards and is the co-founder of a STEM outreach program for high-school girls. Dr. Morgan currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Biomechanics and was recently elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.