Hideko Heidi Nakajima

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Ph.D., M.D.
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts Eye and Ear

heidi_nakajima@meei.harvard.edu

Mike Ravicz

Associate Scientist, Eaton-Peabody Lab, Massachusetts Eye & Ear
Research Associate, Harvard Medical School

Mike has worked in middle-ear mechanics for over 30 years. He provides expertise in experimental and equipment design, data reduction, presentations and publications, and administration as well as acoustics, vibrations, signal processing, and Matlab and LabView programming. He helped design and set up the new laboratory space and equipment.

Paul Secchia

Ph.D. Candidate, Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard University

Andrew Tubelli

Research Scientist, Massachusetts Eye & Ear

Andrew has a BS from Boston University and an MS from University of Toronto. He specializes in biomechanical finite element modeling and has worked in hearing mechanics for over 10 years, creating models of the middle ear and cochlea in several species including human, gerbil, whale and dolphin. Currently in Heidi’s lab, he is computationally modeling the human cochlear partition. Outside of the lab, he is passionate about helping scientists with visual communication and is trained as a medical illustrator.

Emma Wawrzynek

Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emma grew up in the hills of Berkeley, California, and stuck around to get her B.S. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley. She is currently working on developing a middle ear microphone for totally implantable cochlear implants. With her free time, Emma loves to run, make art, and cook for her friends.

John Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John is a PhD student at MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on electromechanical sensing and actuation in a range of environments from medical implants to space structures. His interests include the intersection of art and science, electromechanics, control, and simulation.

Aleks Zosuls

Research Scientist, Boston University

Aleks has been studying middle ear and inner ear mechanics for over 20 years. He has been involved with designing, fabricating, validating, and using instrumentation used to make micromechanical measurements of biological tissues.