BE, Mechanical Engineering (1:1), NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Fellowships and Awards
Application Co-Author, Digital Catapult Machine Intelligence Garage Cohort.
Co-Author, MSB Network Travel Grant.
Co-Author, MSB Network Travel Grant.
Co-Author, CRUK Oxford Kickstart Fund.
Associate Fellowship — 2020 Science Program.
Co-Author, ICHEC Class B Project — proposal co-author for time on Ireland's national HPC cluster (500,000 CPU hours).
IRCSET PhD Fellowship under the EMBARK initiative (€72,000).
NUI Galway University Scholarship for academic performance.
NUI Galway University Entrance Scholarship for academic performance.
Winner of Mathematical Sciences category, STEM for Britain awards for Early Career Researchers at the Houses of Parliament.
2nd best paper in the established researcher category, RAMI bioengineering section conference.
RAMI bronze medal for best overall paper, RAMI bioengineering section conference.
Best paper, Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium.
Best presentation, NUI Galway CoEI research day.
Shortlisted for the Young Investigator in Biomechanics award, Endocardiovascular Biomechanics Research (EBR) Congress, Marseille, France.
Shortlisted for the Innovative Student Engineer Ireland award (Top 5) and Best Mechanical Engineering Graduate in the UK and Ireland (Top 3), SET awards.
Best final year project, Engineers Ireland West division.
Frederic Barnes Waldron prize for top mechanical engineering graduate and MCS prize for best final year project, NUI Galway.
Journal Articles
2019
M.O. Bernabeu, J. Köry, J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, A.B. Ricol, M. d'Avezac, J. Kaeppler, N. Daly, J. Hetherington, T. Krüger, P.K. Maini, J.M. Pitt-Francis, R.J. Muschel, T. Alarcón, H.M. Byrne, Abnormal Morphology Biases Haematocrit Distribution in Tumour Vasculature and Contributes to Heterogeneity in Tissue Oxygenation, 2019 in-submission.
2018
J.A. Grogan, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, The Importance of Geometry in the Corneal Micropocket Angiogenesis Assay, PLoS Computational Biology 14(3):e1006049, 2018 DOI.
D.L. Humphries, J.A. Grogan, E.A. Gaffney, The Mechanics of Phantom Mikado Networks, Journal of Physics Communications 2:055015, 2018.
2017
D.L. Humphries, J.A. Grogan, E.A. Gaffney, Mechanical Cell–Cell Communication in Fibrous Networks: The Importance of Network Geometry, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 79:498–524, 2017.
J.A. Grogan, A.J. Connor, B. Markelc, R.J. Muschel, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, J.M. Pitt-Francis, Microvessel Chaste: An Open Library for Spatial Modelling of Vascularized Tissues, Biophysical Journal 112(9):1767–1772, 2017.
2016
J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, A.J. Connor, R.J. Muschel, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Predicting the influence of microvascular structure on tumour response to radiotherapy, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 64(3):504–511, 2016.
E.L. Boland, J.A. Grogan, C. Conway, P.E. McHugh, Computer Simulation of the mechanical behaviour of implanted biodegradable stents in a remodelling artery, JOM: The Journal of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society 68:1198–1203, 2016.
2014
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Computational micromechanics of bioabsorbable magnesium stents, Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials 34:93–105, 2014.
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, A physical corrosion model for bioabsorbable metallic stents, Acta Biomaterialia, 2014 in-pressDOI.
2013
J.A. Grogan, D. Gastaldi, M. Castelletti, F. Migliavacca, G. Dubini, P.E. McHugh, A novel flow chamber for biodegradable alloy assessment in physiologically realistic environments, Review of Scientific Instruments 34:094301, 2013.
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Optimizing the design of a bioabsorbable metal stent using computer simulation methods, Biomaterials 34:8049–60, 2013.
E. Birmingham, J.A. Grogan, G.L. Niebur, L.M. McNamara, P.E. McHugh, Computational modelling of the mechanics of trabecular bone and marrow using fluid structure interaction techniques, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 41:814–826, 2013.
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Influence of statistical size effects on the plastic deformation of coronary stents, Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials 20:61–76, 2013.
2012
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Comparing coronary stent material performance on a common geometric platform through simulated benchtesting, Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials 12:129–138, 2012.
2011
J.A. Grogan, B.J. O'Brien, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, A corrosion model for bioabsorbable metallic stents, Acta Biomaterialia 7:3523–3533, 2011.
2010
F. Harewood, J.A. Grogan, P.E. McHugh, A multiscale approach to failure assessment in deployment for cardiovascular stents, Journal of Multiscale Modelling 2:1–22, 2010.
Conference Proceedings
P.E. McHugh, J.A. Grogan, C. Conway, E. Boland, Computational modeling for analysis and design of metallic biodegradable stents, Journal of Medical Devices: Design of Medical Devices Conference, Minneapolis, USA, 2015.
J.A. Grogan, P.K. Maini, J.M. Pitt-Francis, H.M. Byrne, Simulating tumour vasculature at multiple scales, 6th International Advanced Research Workshop on In Silico Oncology and Cancer Investigation, Athens, Greece, 2014.
Invited Talks
J.A. Grogan, Panellist at the Italy for Innovation series, Italian Embassy, London, 2019.
J.A. Grogan, A.J. Connor, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, A computational framework for multi-scale vascular tumour growth models, Computational Life Sciences Workshop, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 2016.
J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, R.J. Muschel, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Assessing Mathematical Models of Oxygen Transport and Blood Flow in Tumour Micro-Vasculature Using Intravital Imaging Data, Angiogenesis Gordon Research Conference, Rhode Island, USA, 2015.
International Conference Presentations
J.A. Grogan, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Modelling micro-vascular transport in tumours using intra-vital imaging data, European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB) Conference, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2016.
J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, T.T. Tapmeier, R.J. Muschel, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Parameter identification and validation of multi-scale vascular tumour models using imaging data, IVth International Conference on Computational Bioengineering, Barcelona, Spain, 2015.
J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, I. Rodriguez-Villarreal, T. Alarcón, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Integrating Multiphoton Imaging, Microfluidics Channels and Mathematical Modelling to Study Vascular Networks in Tumours, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Oxford Annual Symposium, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2016.
J.A. Grogan, B. Markelc, I. Rodriguez-Villarreal, T. Alarcón, J.M. Pitt-Francis, P.K. Maini, H.M. Byrne, Integrated Intravital Imaging and Mathematical Modelling of Vascular Networks in Tumours, Quantitative Biology in Oxford (QBIOX) Springboard Meeting, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2016.
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Micro-scale modelling of metals for coronary stent applications, European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC), Graz, Austria, 2012.
J.A. Grogan, A. Bobel, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Bioreabsorbable stents: some recent developments in analysis and design recommendations, Endocardiovascular Biomechanics Research (EBR) Congress, Marseille, France, 2012.
J.A. Grogan, B.J. O'Brien, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, A phenomenological corrosion model for biodegradable metals with application in bioabsorbable stent assessment and design, International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM), Limerick, Ireland, 2011.
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Modelling and experiments to aid performance assessment of biodegradable metallic stents, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, USA, 2010.
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, A phenomenological model of corrosion in biodegradable metallic stents, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC), Florida, USA, 2010.
J.A. Grogan, S.B. Leen, P.E. McHugh, Computational modelling of biodegradable metallic stents, Endocardiovascular Biomechanics Research (EBR) Congress, Marseille, France, 2010.
Teaching Activity
Inter-collegiate Course Tutor: Mathematical Physiology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Teaching Assistant: Finite Element Methods, NUI Galway.
Lab Demonstrator: Dynamical Systems, DTC Systems Medicine and Mathematical and Computational Biology Modules, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
Lab Demonstrator: Engineering Computing (Fortran) and Thermodynamics, NUI Galway.