Centers, Labs, Groups

In research labs and groups across UVA Engineering, our faculty and students are making discoveries and disseminating their breakthroughs across the globe.

  • Aerospace Research Laboratory

    ARL's current research areas include air-breathing propulsion, hypersonic aerodynamics, optical diagnostic and measurement technique development, particle inertial separation, shock interaction with liquids and particles, and the effects of blast waves on biological systems.
    Capabilities
    • Tunnel Sensors
    • PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry)
    • PLIF (Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence)
    • FEA (Finite Element Analysis)
    • Density-Based Optical Diagnostics
    • TDLAT (Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Tomography)
    • External Diagnostics

  • Agnew Research Group

    Agnew Research Group is focused primarily on metals analysis, including magnesium alloy formability, intermetallic behaviors, and aluminum alloy fatigue using SEM, TEM, XRD, and Neutron diffraction analysis. Also included in our army of techniques is mechanical testing.

  • Ai Lab

    The Ai lab specializes in protein engineering and employs interdisciplinary approaches, including biophysics, bioanalytical chemistry, chemical biology, synthetic biology, and optical imaging.

  • ASSIST Center

    The Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) is an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center established in 2012. ASSIST focuses on creating self-powered sensing, computing, and communication systems to enable data-driven insights for a smart and healthy world.

  • Bajikar Lab

    Our laboratory is using multidisciplinary approaches from human stem cells to computational models to understand how brain function goes awry in neurodevelopmental disorders to engineer new therapies for these diseases.

  • Biophysical Microsystems Group

    The Biophysical Microsystems Group seeks to uncover precision medicine-based approaches for disease diagnostics, biomanufacturing and to screen subjects for regenerative therapies.

  • Bourne and Mura Lab

    Our objective is to improve the drug discovery and safety pipeline, our understanding of sequence-structure-function relationships, often from an evolutionary perspective, and broadly contribute open data and methods to further our collective understanding of living systems.

  • Burns Research Group

    The Burns Research Group is a member of the Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering, which operates inside of the Materials Science and Engineering Department here at UVA. Our research is primarily directed towards investigating environmental fracture in structural metals, including ultra-high strength steels, 5xxx and 7xxx-series aluminum, and Ni-based super alloys.

  • Caliari Lab

    We engineer biomaterials to better understand the dynamic reciprocity between cells and their microenvironment. We apply these platforms to address fundamental human health challenges including treatment of fibrotic diseases and repair and replacement of musculoskeletal tissues.

  • Cardiac Systems Biology Group

    Heart function and failure are controlled by complex molecular networks that are just beginning to be mapped. The CSBG combines computational modeling and experiments to discover molecular networks that control cardiac remodeling and regeneration.