Soft Materials @ Liverpool

Gregor Miklosic completed his BEng in Biomedical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London in 2018, before going on to pursue an MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London. He undertook his MSc research project within the Stevens group. He then undertook his doctoral studies between the AO Institute in Davos and ETH Zürich, within the group of Matteo D’Este. Since July 2025, Gregor has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate working across the Forth Group and our group at the University of Liverpool, where he works as part of the EU Horizon-funded GreenNanoBone project. His research sits at the intersection of digital chemistry, biomaterials, and mechanobiology, with a particular focus on exploiting fundamental mechanobiological principles in engineered hydrogel systems to advance musculoskeletal tissue engineering.

Mylo Bishop joined the group in October 2024, following a first class bioengineering degree at the University of Sheffield. Mylo is studying the flow behaviour and 3D printing of microgel suspensions made biopolymers and exploring their potential for printing gradient scaffolds.

Arden Williams completed her MEng in Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Manchester in Summer 2025, where her Masters project with Dr Stephen Edmonson focused on Direct Ink Writing for soft robotics. She started her PhD at the University of Liverpool in October of the same year within the Complex Fluids and Soft Materials Groups. Her current research focuses on characterising and visualising the rheological and flow behaviour of yield‑stress fluids used in Direct Ink Writing. By advancing the fundamental understanding of these materials, her work aims to enhance printability and guide more effective ink selection across a broad range of DIW applications.

Shaurya

Shaurya Aneja completed a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry from the University of Delhi in 2023, followed by an M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore in 2025, where her research focused on hydrogels and she was selected to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in Chemistry. She joined the Complex Fluids and Soft Materials Groups in January 2026. Her current work explores lyotropic liquid crystals through combined experimental and computational approaches, with an emphasis on structure-flow relationships by connecting bulk and microscopic dynamic behaviours for advanced material processing and additive manufacturing.

Masters Students:

• Samrudh
  Manibettu Subrahmanya
• Kieran Stewart
• Ben Woodland
• Chloe Glasheen
• Ajina Fathima
• Sagarika Rasiti Mohan

UG Students:

• Idris Hadrami
• Brendan Vernan-Bowyer
• Rashid Alsubaey
• Jacob Keddy