Professor Elena Pirogova
Details
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College: School of Engineering
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Department: School of Engineering
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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elena.pirogova@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-9422-1370
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Elena Pirogova is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering. She works in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University. Experienced undergraduate and Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) Program Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Elena does research in Bioengineering, Biomedical devices, Biomaterials and Bioelectromagnetics. Elena graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical Engineering from Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, 2002. She completed BEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering (major in Electrochemistry, Physical and Colloidal Chemistry) at the Department of Chemical Cybernetics, Faculty of Chemical Tecnologies, National Technical University of Ukraine (former Kiev Polytechnic Institute), 1991.
Academic positions
- Professor
- RMIT University
- School of Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2020 – Present
- Associate Dean, Discipline of Electrical & Biomedical Engineering
- RMIT University
- School of Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- Dec 2018 – Present
- Associate Professor; HDR Manager, Discipline of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering; Program Manager BH069 Biomedical Engineering (Hons)
- RMIT University
- School of Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2016 – Dec 2018
- Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, BH069 Biomedical Engineering (Hons)
- RMIT University
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2011 – Dec 2015
- Senior Research Fellow
- Health Innovations Research Institute
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- , Australia
- Jan 2009 – Dec 2010
- Research Fellow
- Australian Centre of Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR)
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- , Australia
- Jan 2007 – Dec 2008
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Australian Centre of Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR)
- School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- Apr 2002 – Dec 2006
- Research Associate
- Monash University
- Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2001 – 2001
Supervisor projects
- Melt electrospinning writing as reinforcement scaffolds of biofabricated articular human cartilage (collaborative project with St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne)
- 10 Jan 2024
- Investigation of the mechanisms of action of RRM designed therapeutic peptides on cellular pathways.
- 24 Apr 2023
- Bioactive and mechanically reinforced hydrogel implant for in situ cartilage engineering
- 25 Aug 2022
- Characterisation of the thermal burden on infants in temperate environments and system engineering for mitigation of their overheating
- 18 Aug 2022
- Autologous Constructs for Muscle Engineering and Repair
- 22 Jul 2022
- Biomimetic bone regenerating implants from osteoinductive and bioerodable composite materials
- 28 Jun 2022
- MyoReactor Technologies for Synthetic Muscle Engineering
- 3 Dec 2021
- Engineering the Living Brain-Machine Interface
- 2 Dec 2021
- An Investigation of Motor Imagery and Virtual Reality for Post-Stroke Motor Function Recovery
- 11 Aug 2021
- BioFabrication of a Vascular Tissue Flap
- 20 Jul 2020
- Investigating potential cellular targets for therapeutic peptides designed using the Resonant Recognition Model (RRM)
- 13 Jul 2020
- Fabrication of an in vitro Skin Model Aimed at Cosmetic Testing Applications
- 26 Jun 2020
- Novel Body-conforming Photonic Textile Material for Therapeutic Application of Wound Healing
- 26 Feb 2020
- Microfluidic Models for Analysis of Vortical Flow Patterns in Aneurysms
- 16 Jan 2020
- Creating Tissue-Specific Bioinks: Lessons from Self-Assembling Peptide Macromolecule Hybrids
- 19 Dec 2019
- Microfabricated Platforms for Mimicking the Biomechanics of the Human Cardiovascular System
- 11 Dec 2019
- A Bioengineered Approach to Study The Mechanobiology of Endothelial Cells in Response to Cyclic Stretch and Substrate Stiffness
- 25 Sep 2019
- Effects of low power radiofrequency/microwave (RF/MW) radiation on mechanotransduction in cells
- 12 Mar 2019
- Negative Printing for the Creation of Osteochondral Scaffolds
- 14 Dec 2018
- Examining Changes in Sensitivity and Functionality of Mechanosensitive Ion Channel Protein Piezo 1 Exposed to Low-Level Radiofrequency Radiation
- 1 Sep 2018
- Error-related Potentials: A Novel Approach to a Real-Time Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Stroke Rehabilitation System
- 10 Apr 2018
- Alternative Microfabrication Techniques for Fabricating Complex Microfluidic Structures
- 1 Mar 2018
- Computational Inference of Trustworthiness in Social Figures through Analysis of Speech Acoustic, Textual, and Visual Signals
- 16 Nov 2017
- Deep Learning Techniques for the Fine Art and Australian Aboriginal Painting Analysis
- 3 Jul 2017
- Computational Speech Acquisition for Articulatory Synthesis
- 1 Mar 2017
- Development of Additively Manufactured Diamond-Coated Scaffolds for Orthopaedic Applications
- 29 Feb 2016
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Stimulation on Bone Fracture-Related Healing Through in Vitro Experiments and Computational Modelling
- 29 Feb 2016
- Combinational Photoplethysmography Based Model for Blood Pressure Measurement
- 28 Mar 2015
- Acoustic Manipulation of Fluids in Synthetic and Biological Porous Materials
- 13 Feb 2015
- Biological Effects of Low Power Microwave Radiation on Proteins and Cells: Modelling and Experimental evaluation
- 17 Mar 2014
Teaching interests
Elena Pirogova has taught and coordinated the following courses:
EEET2247 Enterprise Engineering (UG, 1st year)
EEET2047 Project Management & Entrepreneurship (PG)
EEET2395/2397 Extended Professional Engineering Project 1 & 2 (UG, 4th year)
EEET2346/2347 Professional Engineering Project A & B (PG)
EEET2349/2350 Professional Engineering Advanced Project A & B (PG)
EEET2396/2398 Extended Professional Engineering Project 1 & 2 (PG)
OENG1108 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering and Design (UG, 1st year)
OENG1133 Biomedical Engineering Design & Practice (UG, 3rd year)
OENG1230 Biomedical Engineering System Design (UG, 2nd year)
OENG1167/1168 Engineering Capstone Projects A, B (UG, 4th year, Biomedical Engineering Discipline)
Research interests
Biomedical engineering; biomaterials; computational design of therapeutic peptides; biological effects and therapeutic applications of electromagnetic radiation (PEMF, infrared and visible light, radiofrequency, microwave); signal processsing
