Robert Herbert

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology (2022)

Expertise

Biomedical devices • implantable and wearable soft electronics • cardiovascular sensors • soft robotics • multifunctional elastomers• printing and additive manufacturing • in-space applications.

Biographical Sketch

Robert Herbert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University. He was previously a postdoctoral research associate at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2016 and 2017, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2022. His lab’s research goals are to offer improved devices and solutions for human health problems by studying the design, materials, and manufacturing of biomedical devices, bio-interfaced electronics, and soft material systems. Vascular diseases are of major interest, including creating wearable or implantable electronics for monitoring and soft material platforms to evaluate device designs and surgical procedures. We also focus on the development and use of advanced printing technologies to create electronics and soft material systems. Alongside biomedical applications, we study in-space manufacturing and in-space applications for soft electronics and robotics.

Key Publications

R. Herbert, P. Mocny, Y. Zhao, T.C. Lin, J. Zhang, M. Vinciguerra, S. Surprenant, W.Y. Chan, S. Kumar, M.R. Bockstaller, K. Matyjaszewski, C. Majidi. “Thermo-mechanically stable, liquid metal embedded soft materials for high-temperature applications”. Advanced Functional Materials, 2309725, 2023.
B. Rigo, A. Bateman, J. Lee, H. Kim, Y. Lee, L. Romero, Y.C. Jang, R. Herbert*, WH, Yeo. “Soft implantable printed bioelectronic system for wireless continuous monitoring of restenosis”. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 241, 2023.
R. Herbert, M. Elsisy, B. Rigo, H. Lim, H. Kim, C. Choi, S. Kim, S. Ye, W. Wagner, Y. Chun, WH, Yeo. “Fully implantable batteryless soft platforms with printed nanomaterial-based arterial stiffness sensors for wireless continuous monitoring of restenosis in real time”. Nano Today, 46 (1), 2022.
R. Herbert, H. Lim, B. Rigo, WH. Yeo. “Fully implantable wireless batteryless vascular electronics with printed soft sensors for multiplex sensing of hemodynamics”. Science Advances, 8 (19), 2022.