Rate My Professor Josie Carberry

Dr. Josie Carberry serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, where she also earned her B.Eng/B.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering before undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research investigates how fluid forces in blood flow influence cardiovascular function, with a focus on shear-induced mechanotransduction in platelets and thrombus dynamics. Carberry pioneers in-vitro platforms mimicking complex hemodynamic environments, such as microfluidic devices for vessel wall flow, patient-specific pulsatile flow generators, and hybrid experimental-computational methods for simultaneous 4D mapping of flow fields (velocity, shear stress, pressure) and biological processes (thrombus growth, stability, receptor activation). These advancements facilitate studies on thrombosis mechanisms, hemocompatibility of cardiovascular implants like heart valves and RVADs, and efficacy of anti-thrombotic therapies. She has authored or co-authored 60 research outputs, including seminal papers: Nesbitt et al. (2009) "A shear gradient-dependent platelet aggregation mechanism drives thrombus formation" (Nature Medicine); Tolouei et al. (2011) "Effect of hemodynamic forces on thrombi geometry" (Annals of Biomedical Engineering); Simon et al. (2004) "Comparison of the hinge flow fields of two bileaflet mechanical heart valves under aortic and mitral conditions" (Annals of Biomedical Engineering); Pinar et al. (2015) "Methods to Determine the Lagrangian Shear Experienced by Blood Cells" (PLoS ONE); and recent contributions such as Zeibi Shirejini et al. (2025) "Evaluating caplacizumab's potential to mitigate thrombosis risk in aortic valve stenosis: a microfluidic and computational approach" (Lab on a Chip) and Perera et al. (2025) "Improvement of Hemocompatibility in Passive Cardiovascular Implant Devices" (Advanced Therapeutics). Carberry has led projects including a COVID recovery initiative as Chief Investigator and contributes as Associate Investigator to personalized aneurysm rupture prediction research.

In her teaching role, she delivers courses on fluid mechanics and aerospace engineering fundamentals, including MEC2404 Mechanics of Fluids, MEC3465 Fluid Mechanics, MAE1041 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering, and MAE3469 Computer-Assisted Engineering. Her interdisciplinary work supports UN SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being through innovations in biomedical engineering.