Postgraduate
Project
Simulating head impacts to better understand the mechanics of brain injuries in sports.
Key research areas
Injury prevention, concussion, Gum shields, Biomechanics of human Jaw, neck mechanics, Sports injury mechanics, advanced processing methods, polymers.
Summary of research
- Create a jaw that allows effective coupling of mouthguards and allows for clamping of mouthguards at different clamping forces.
- Create a head form that allows you to recreate real life impacts whilst also allowing you to collect a range of variables such ass angular velocity linear acceleration and clamping forces.
- Create a product that could be mounted onto a neck effectively.
Academic supervisors
- Dr Paul Sherratt
- Dr Jon Farmer
- Dr Sean Mitchell
Background
Graduated from school of AACME Loughborough with a MEng in Materials Engineering. Prior to Loughborough my first 10 years of my life was spent in Nigeria, and I moved to the UK when I was 10 years old where I lived in Nottingham before moving to Loughborough for University.
Non academic interests
I am Team GB athlete for American football, I also play for Loughborough university and Nottingham Men’s team in the same sport. I have interest in building high spec computers, Basketball, Formular 1 and Royal Air force. Used to be in the Air cadets where I achieved the rank of corporal before moving to university.