Staff Directory

Ehsan is a fifth year Ph. D. student in the lab. He grew up in Orange County, California but was born in Tehran, Iran. At Columbia, he studied and was awarded a Masters in Science degree in Biomedical Engineering (2022). He currently holds a Bachelors in Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine (June 2020), a Masters in Science, Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University (May 2022) and a Masters in Philosophy from Columbia University (May 2024). Ehsan's undergraduate research was studying functional connectivity networks in children with infantile spasms in Dr. Beth Lopour's Laboratory of Computational and Translational Neuroscience.

Ehsan loves to play basketball and Tennis in his spare time, listen to all genres of music (yes, even country) and watch the latest and greatest TV shows, movies and read books. (While updating his Letterboxd and Goodreads of course). You'll catch him rooting for the Lakers, Ducks and Angels in his spare time.

Carolyn is a sixth year Ph.D. student from Los Angeles, California. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her Masters from Columbia University. 

Barclay Morrison III, PhD. is professor of Biomedical Engineering, director of the Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory, and serves as Vice Dean of Undergraduate Programs for the Engineering School at Columbia University. His research focues on the biomechanics of traumatic brain injury (TBI) at the tissue level to  better prevent brain injuries, and on the cellular pathways responsible for post-traumatic cell dysfunction in the search for novel therapies. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed  scientific manuscripts, serves as a council member and President of the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury, is a board member of Football Research Inc., and is an associate editor for the Journal of Neurotrauma and Brain Multiphysics.

He received his BS in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, his PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and continued his academic training as a post-doctoral fellow in the Clinical Neurosciences department at Southampton University, UK before joining the faculty of Columbia University in 2003.

Dr. Morrison is a past recipient of the Rickard Skalak Best Paper Award given by the American Society for Mechanical Engineers for a publication in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering and the John Paul Stapp Award for the best paper in the Stapp Car Crash Journal. His laboratory studies brain injuries from common occurrences like motor vehicle accidents, falls, and sports-related concussions to reduce their socioeconomic toll by developing better safety systems to prevent injuries and understanding the pathobiology to better treat brain injuries.