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Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Dr. Erin Purcell received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Michigan Technological University (2001) and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan (2004 and 2008). She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at the University of Michigan (2012). She subsequently joined Michigan State University (MSU) as a senior research fellow in 2012 and was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2014 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She became a founding faculty member of MSU’s new Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2016. She was tenured as an Associate Professor in 2020. She became the Associate Chair for the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2022. At MSU, Erin teaches 400- and 800-level neural engineering and medical device innovation courses to students from diverse backgrounds in engineering and life sciences. As the P.I. of the Regenerative Electrode Interface Lab, Dr. Purcell is pursuing new approaches to characterize, modulate, and regenerate neuronal responses at the interface of electrodes implanted in the brain. Her lab is funded by multiple NIH awards and an NSF CAREER award.
Friday, June 13, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET