Nadkarni Lab Team

Nichaluk Leartprapun, Ph.D.

Nichaluk (Nikki) Leartprapun is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Nadkarni Lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received an B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in 2014 and an M.S. in Bioengineering Innovation and Design from Johns Hopkins University in 2015. She completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Steven Adie at Cornell University in 2021, after which she joined the Nadkarni Lab in August 2021. Her research focuses on the development and application of optical technologies for micromechanical characterization of biomaterials.

Nathaniel (Nati) Hai is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He joined the Nadkarni Lab in August 2022 after he completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the mentoring of Prof. Joseph Rosen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Nathaniel studies light-matter interactions at sub- micrometric scales to develop novel structural and mechanical contrast mechanisms.

Nathaniel Hai, Ph.D.

Daniel Hoare, Ph.D.

Dr. Daniel Hoare is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in coagulation assays and microfluidics. His work focuses on understanding the mechanisms of thrombosis and developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Hoare holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, where his research investigated nanofabricated biosensors for implantable medical devices. He also hold an MSc in Cardiovascular Disease (Distinction) from the University of Chester and a BSc in Cardiac Physiology from the University of Wolverhampton.

Anton Deti, B.Sc.

Aniket Joshi

Eli Foster, M.Sc.

Chloe Melville, B.Sc.

Kimberli R. Bell

Zeinab Hajjarian, Ph.D.

Zeinab Hajjarian is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. Her doctoral work focused on modeling light propagation through atmosphere to enable optical telecommunications and imaging. She transitioned to biomedical optics in 2010 by pursuing post-doctoral training at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. There, she developed technologies for characterizing the mechanobiology of human disease, including cardiovascular disease, coagulation disorders, and carcinoma. Her current research involves development and translation of novel optical microscopes for mapping the biophysical and biomechanical properties of tissues.