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Professor C.R. Ethier

BSc (Queen's), M.Math (Waterloo), SM (MIT), PhD (MIT), PEng

Curriculum Vitae of C. R. Ethier (PDF format)

Recent Publications in Bioengineering

4th Year Thesis Projects

Area of Research

Biomechanics of molecules, cells and whole organs; Numerical and experimental studies of blood flow in large arteries, study of hemodynamic basis of arterial disease; outflow of aqueous humour within the eye, as related to the problem of glaucoma; mechanical and cellular response of optic nerve tissues to intraocular pressure in glaucoma.

Research Projects

Prof. Ethier is not accepting any graduate students, exchange students or 4th year thesis students. Please do not contact him for a position in his group at U. of Toronto.

Computational Resources

Our group uses a 276 CPU parallel cluster for computational modelling. Further details on this High Performance Advanced Computing Facility, including access for Canadian researchers, are available here


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