Dr Dario Carugo PhD

Lecturer

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Current position

Dario Carugo is a Lecturer in the Bioengineering Science Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (Institute of Biomedical Engineering). He is the coordinator of the Micro & Nano Therapies (MiNaTher.) research team in Southampton.

He is Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Coordinator and Core Group Member of the “European network of multidisciplinary research to improve the urinary stents” (ENIUS). He is Editorial Board member of Micromachines (MDPI) and Biomedical Microdevices (Springer).

Career history

Dario holds BSc and MSc degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he specialised in Biological Fluid Dynamics & Bio-Machines. He obtained a PhD in Bioengineering Sciences at the University of Southampton in 2012, with the distinction of awards for the Best Medical Engineering PhD Thesis (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE) and the UK Life Sciences Postgraduate of the Year Award (from BBSRC and DoH). He worked as a PostDoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton (where he was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize) and at the University of Oxford (BUBBL group, Institute of Biomedical Engineering). In Oxford he held a Junior Research Fellowship in Engineering at Jesus College. In 2016 he was awarded a New Frontiers Fellowship by the University of Southampton, where he was subsequently appointed to a lecturership in 2018.