STAFF PROFILE
Professor Elena Pirogova
Position:
Associate Dean Electrical & Biomedical
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399253015
Email:
elena.pirogova@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research areas
- biomedical engineering/instrumentation
- bioinformatics, protein modelling, peptide design
- bioelectromagnetics
- biological effects of electromagnetic radiation: therapeutic application in health care (cancer, wound healing)
- Program Director:
- Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering)
- Research Group Leader:
- Health and biological effects of electromagnetic radiation (Biophysics and Bioengineering Program, Health Innovations Research Institute)
- SECE HDR Committee member
- Course Coordinator:
- EEET2247 Enterprise Engineering (UG)
- EEET2047 Project Management & Entrepreneurship (PG)
- EEET2395/2397 Extended Professional Engineering Project 1 & 2 (UG)
- 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)
- PhD Biomedical Engineering, Monash University (2002)
- BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Ukraine (1991)
Member of professional associations
- Engineers Australia
Employment history
- 2012-present, Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 2009-2011, Senior Research Fellow, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Health Innovations Research Institute
- 2007-2009, Senior Research Fellow, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Australian Centre of Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR)
- 2002, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- 2001, Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
Accomplishments
- Associate Investigator in Centre of Research Excellence for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence, 2012-2016
- Associate Investigator in Australian Centre of Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR), NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence 2004-2009.
- RMIT Research Award 2004 (Innovative Research Team)
- Choy, C.,Cloherty, S.,Pirogova, E.,Fang, Q. (2023). Virtual Reality Assisted Motor Imagery for Early Post-Stroke Recovery: A Review In: IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 16, 487 - 498
- Shitov, D.,Pirogova, E.,Wysocki, T.,Lech, M. (2023). Deep Reinforcement Learning for Articulatory Synthesis in a Vowel-to-Vowel Imitation Task In: Sensors, 23, 1 - 18
- Chandra Sekar, N.,Aguilera Suarez, S.,Nguyen, N.,Lai, A.,Thurgood, P.,Zhou, Y.,Chheang, C.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Peter, K.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S. (2023). Studying the Synergistic Effect of Substrate Stiffness and Cyclic Stretch Level on Endothelial Cells Using an Elastomeric Cell Culture Chamber In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15, 4863 - 4872
- Thurgood, P.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Peter, K.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2023). Dynamic Vortex Generation, Pulsed Injection, and Rapid Mixing of Blood Samples in Microfluidics Using the Tube Oscillation Mechanism In: Analytical Chemistry, 95, 3089 - 3097
- Pang, T.,Kootsookos, A.,Pirogova, E. (2023). Pandemic-Induced course and assessment changes for undergraduate engineering education: The Development of Graduate Attributes In: Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 20, 15 - 21
- Liu, E.,Footner, E.,Quigley, A.,Pirogova, E.,Kapsa, R.,O'Connell, C. (2023). A Versatile Method to Create Perfusable, Capillary-Scale Channels in Cell-Laden Hydrogels Using Melt Electrowriting In: Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, , 1 - 11
- Firipis, K.,Footner, E.,Boyd-Moss, M.,Dekiwadia, C.,Nisbet, D.,Kapsa, R.,Pirogova, E.,Williams, R.,Quigley, A. (2022). Biodesigned bioinks for 3D printing via divalent crosslinking of self-assembled peptide-polysaccharide hybrids In: Materials Today Advances, 14, 1 - 14
- Pang, T.,Kootsookos, A.,Fox, K.,Pirogova, E. (2022). Does an assessment rubric provide a better learning experience for undergraduates in developing transferable skills? In: Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 19, 1 - 27
- Thurgood, P.,Chheang, C.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Peter, K.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2022). Generation of dynamic vortices in a microfluidic system incorporating stenosis barrier by tube oscillation In: Lab on a Chip, 22, 1917 - 1928
- Sutterby, E.,Chheang, C.,Thurgood, P.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S.,Pirogova, E. (2022). Investigating the effects of low intensity visible light on human keratinocytes using a customized LED exposure system In: Scientific Reports, 12, 1 - 11
- Microfluidic platforms for studying foam cell formation in vessels. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2019 from (2021 to 2024)
- Melt electrospinning writing as reinforcement scaffolds of biofabricated articular human cartilage. Funded by: St Vincent's Hospital - BioFab32 from (2019 to 2023)
- The Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (Led by The University of Wollongong).. Funded by: NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (Ongoing) from (2018 to 2023)
- Centre of Research Excellence for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research. Administered by The University of Wollongong.. Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence Grant Pre-2014 from (2013 to 2018)
- Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR). Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence Grant Pre-2014 from (2004 to 2009)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
15 PhD Current Supervisions23 PhD Completions and 3 Masters by Research Completions
Bioelectronics, protein modelling, influence of electromagnetic fields on proteins.