PhD, P.Eng.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum
Dean’s Catalyst Professor
Email: eyoung@mie.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-978-1521
Office: MC313
Research Group: Integrative Biology and Microengineered Technologies Laboratory (IBMT)
Research Areas
Materials
Thermofluids
Research Interests
Microfluidics; biofluid mechanics; microscale cell-based systems; cellular microenvironments; microfabrication; cell biology; cell imaging and microscopy; biomedical engineering; and cancer.
Bio
Edmond W.K. Young joined the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in January 2013. He received his BASc (2001) and MASc (2003) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, and his PhD in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto (2008). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2009 to 2012, working at the Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research (WIMR).
Professor Young’s research interests focus on the development of microscale technologies for cell biology applications, with emphasis on creating engineered models that mimic the cell and tissue microenvironments in both healthy and diseased animals. This interdisciplinary research area requires combining the principles and techniques of microfabrication, fluid mechanics, material science, cell biology, and cell imaging and microscopy. He received the Governor General’s Gold Medal and the Norman F. Moody Award for academic excellence in 2009, the MIE Early Career Teaching Award in 2015, and the Ontario Early Researcher Award and Connaught New Investigator Award in 2016.
