ABE Doctoral student was elected as the Student Representative for Executive Council of the International Society of Biomechanics

Graduate student Ediuska Laurens was elected as the student representative on the 2007-09 Executive Council of the International Society of Biomechanics. She was chosen over students from Australia, England and Case Western Reserve University. This July, she will represent students from all over the world when she attends her first ISB meeting in Taipei.

Laurens is a second-year doctoral student in the Applied Biomedical Engineering program, a collaborative effort between Cleveland State and the Cleveland Clinic. She does her research at the Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute in the laboratory of biomedical engineer Dr. Tony Calabro. Her area of expertise is using hydrogels as a basis for tissue-engineered devices to replace human tissues.

Laurens holds a master’s degree from SUNY-Buffalo. A native of Venezuela, she is the first person from South America to serve on the ISB Executive Council.