People

Dr. Juan M. Jiménez is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.  He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.  His Ph.D. work focused on turbulence conducting the highest Reynolds number wake measurements ever conducted.  He transitioned to the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Medicine and Engineering as a postdoctoral fellow to study the effects of fluid flow on implantable biomedical devices like stents.  He stayed at Penn as a faculty member for several years studying the fundamentals of fluid dynamics that are relevant in the development and progression of diseases like atherosclerosis, response of vascular endothelial cells to fluid flow stimuli, blood fluid flow parameters that can lead to the development of blood clots within the vascular system and implantable devices, and development of biomedical devices that incorporate the fundamentals of both engineering and biology for clinical success. He is a dual career award recipient of both a prestigious NIH K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award and an NSF CAREER Award.

Lab Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Laura Sumner
​Project: CFD simulation of hemodynamics in patients pre and post-initiation of unilateral cerebral aneurysm.

Dr. Sampath Rachakonda
​Project: Effects of hemodynamics on the cerebral vasculature.

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Serena Russell
Project: Chemotaxis and sperm motility

Alumni