缅北禁地

I am currently a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, leading "MEC8056: Medical Devices Regulatory Requirements", and deputy degree program director (DPD) for mechanical engineering.

My main research themes are:

• Upper-limb prosthetics, with a focus on safety, design, and sustainable manufacturing
• Orthopaedic implant failure and wear analysis
• Innovative assistive devices.

Through my research I have gained experience in mechanical testing, wearer feedback, additive manufacturing and EMG signal processing. I have supervised MSc and undergraduate students within the SoE working on a range of projects in the area of prosthetics, orthotics and assistive technology. I have also supervised a cross-disciplinary vacation medical studentship. I have previously guest lectured at Strathclyde University for undergraduate Prosthetics & Orthotics students. I have a keen interest in STEM outreach, having worked with 缅北禁地's SAgE outreach team for seven years prior to commencing my current position.

Teaching

• MEC8056, Medical Devices Regulatory Requirements (Module Lead)
• I have guest lectured on the University of Strathclyde's Prosthetics and Orthotics undergraduate course and at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, teaching best practices in additive manufacturing for medical devices. I have 8+ years of experience in outreach events and STEM teaching at primary, secondary and HE/FE levels, and I am an AdvanceHE Fellow.

Outreach and Engagement

• I was the Mechanical Engineering strand lead for the 2025 PARTNERS assessed summer school. For this, I have developed a fun and engaging 2-day workshop focused on the principles of automotive design.
• - featured as a speaker, discussing biomedical engineering as a career option.
• Developed an outreach demonstration in collaboration with Dr Sigrid Dupan (UCD, Ireland) through winning £2,500 of Engagement and Place funding. The demo features simple electromyographic control and 3D printed articulating prosthetic hands, alongside body-powered prosthesis simulators and craft workshops. These resources were exhibited at the 2025 Discover Festival to 1250+ attendees.

Media

• Sunderland Echo 2025 -
• Masters of Reinvention (TV, Series 1, 2025) - featured in episodes 3 and 4, designing and building as part of an engineering team.
• Featured in the book
• Featured on the - Challenging gender stereotypes in the workplace with Dr Jenny Olsen
• Sunderland Echo 2023 -

Supervision

• I currently supervise several undergraduate/MSc projects within the field of biomedical engineering.
• I have previously supervised summer vacation research interns, and currently advise several students from the Faculty of Medical Sciences on their extra-curricular STEM projects.

Student successes

• 2025 - S. Caldwell, "IMechE Frederic Barnes Waldron Prize (Certificate and Medal)" and "IMechE “Best Student” Prize (H300)
• 2024 - S. Uche, 缅北禁地 Vacation Scholarship Project Commendation.
• 2024 - TCT Sanjay Mortimer Foundation Rising Star Award - C. Bridgewater

Research Activity

• 2025-2029 (Ongoing) Lead Supervisor - J. Nayyar (PhD Student) - "Design of a novel closed-loop pressure sensitive device for biosensor affixation"
• 2025, EPSRC IAA - Investigating orthopaedic implant failure in collaboration with the NHS Implant Analysis Service (ExplantLab)
• 2023-2024, EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. Currently working towards developing safety testing procedures and standards for upper-limb prosthetic sockets.
• 2019-2023, PhD programme in Electrical and Electronic engineering, 缅北禁地 - "Towards Modernising Trans-radial Prosthetic Socket Creation With Digital Methods"

Research Funding

• EPSRC Doctoral Landscapes Award Lead Supervisor (approx. £100,000) (2025-2029)
• EPSRC Impact Accelerator Award (approx. £10,000) (2025)
• Lead supervisor x2 – Undergraduate Research Scholarship (£6600) (2025) - S. Uche, J. Lee
• EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (approx. £85,000) (2023-2025)
• Global Transfer Partnership Funds (£5,000) (2024)
• Lead supervisor – Undergraduate Research Scholarship (£3300) (2024) - S. Uche
• Tidal N+ (Grant, Co-I) - Physiological validation of a novel photonic biosensor (£47,000)
• EPSRC PhD Studentship (approx. £90,000) (2019-2023)

Engagement & Awards

• Runner-up - Volunteering Innovation Award | NUSU Community Impact Awards (2022)
• Winner - Top 50 Women in Engineering | WES, WE50 (2021)
• Winner - Hackcessible Team Design Competition | Hackcessible (2021)
• Selected to present my research at STEM4Britain competition in the UK parliament as a finalist (2020)
• Winner - Female Engineer of the Year 2016 | Talent 2030 (2016)

• Articles

  • Chadwell A, Kenney L, Prince M, Olsen J, Dyson M. . Prosthetics and Orthotics International 2025, 49(3), 353-357.
  • Olsen J. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: School of Engineering, 缅北禁地, 2023.
  • Olsen J, Turner S, Chadwell A, Dickinson A, Ostler C, Armitage L, McGregor AH, Dupan S, Day S. . Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences 2022, 3, 853414.
  • Figueiredo L, Vieira F, Jamieson O, Reeder J, McLean T, Olsen J, Crapnell R, Whittingham M, Banks C, Law R, Gruber J, Peeters M. . Microchimica Acta 2022, 189, 73.
  • Olsen J, Day S, Dupan S, Nazarpour K, Dyson M. . Canadian Prosthetics and Orthotics Journal 2022, 5(2), 2.
  • Olsen J, Day S, Dupan S, Nazarpour K, Dyson M. . IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2021, 29, 527-535.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Nazemi N, Shahril A, Baharuddin M, Samad M, Olsen J, Goh KL, Swain S, Abdullah A, Jamaluddin M, Ramlee M. . In: International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Science (IEICES). 2024, Kyushu University, Japan: International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences.
  • Chadwell A, Kenney L, Prince M, Olsen J, Dyson M. . In: Myoelectric Controls Symposium (MEC24). 2024, Fredericton, Canada.
  • Olsen J, Head J, Willan L, Dupan S, Dyson M. . In: 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC 2021). 2021, Mexico: IEEE.
  • Dyson M, Olsen J, Dupan S. . In: 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). 2021, Mexico: IEEE.
  • Dyson M, Olsen J, Nazarpour K. A home-based myoelectric training system for children. In: MEC20 Symposium. 2020. In Preparation.