Dr Ruth Mackay
Senior Lecturer
Howell Building 132
- Email: ruth.mackay@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267378
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Summary
Dr. Mackay, a Mechanical Engineer, has a keen interest in the biomedical field. She earned her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dundee in 2007. Following that, she pursued her PhD in Micro-electromechanical Systems in 2011, also at the University of Dundee, with funding from a CASE grant provided by the EPSRC in collaboration with IDB Technologies. In 2011, she joined Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â as a Research Fellow, contributing to a translational MRC grant focused on developing point-of-care devices. Subsequently, in 2015, she assumed the role of a Lecturer at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â.
Her research centers around organ-on-a-chip technologies, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic devices, and prosthetics. She currently leads the Organ on a Chip Group at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â. Additionally, she lectures in the fields of Finite Element Analysis and Medical Device Engineering.
Newest selected publications
Luana, O., Naveenathayalan, A., Silva, E. and Mackay, R. (2024) ''. Discover Applied Science, 6 (7).
Zhang, B., Morgan, M., Teoh, XY., Mackay, R., Ermler, S. and Narayan, R. (2024) ''. Journal of Applied Physics, 135 (14). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 0021-8979
Cullen, S., Mackay, R., Mohagheghi, A. and Du, X. (2023) ''. Prosthesis, 5 (4). pp. 1382 - 1392.
Suthar, K., Lesseps, N., Mackay, R. and Wang, M. (2023) 'Casting vs Injection Moulding: A Comparison Study for In-Lab Low-Cost Soft Robot Fabrication', in Iida, F., Maiolino, P., Abdulali, A. and Wang, M. (eds.) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 24th Annual Conference, TAROS 2023, Cambridge, UK, September 13–15, 2023, Proceedings. Cham, Switzerland : Springer. , 14136 LNAI. pp. 381 - 392. ISBN 10: 3-031-43360-2. ISBN 13: 978-3-031-43359-7.
Cullen, S., Mackay, R., Mohagheghi, A. and Du, X. (2023) ''. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 4. pp. 141 - 147. ISSN: 2644-1276