selected publications

• Paediatric ankle rehabilitation system based on twisted and coiled polymer actuators [∞] (2024)
• New Insights into sea turtle propulsion and their cost of transport point to a potential new generation of high-efficient underwater drones for ocean exploration [∞] (2023)
• Employing robotics for the biomechanical validation of a prosthetic flipper for sea turtles as a substitute for animal clinical trials [∞] (2023)
• Soft-robotic green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) developed to replace animal experimentation provides new insight into their propulsive strategies [∞] (2023)
• Improved performance in temperature and speed of TCP artificial muscles for soft wearables robots by length modification [∞] (2023)
• New insight into the swimming kinematics of wild green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) [∞] (2022)
• Soft wearable rehabilitation robots with artificial muscles based on smart materials: A review [∞] (2022)
• Pilot study: Post-surgical infections could be related with lack of sharpness in surgical tools [∞] (2022)
• Sea turtles employ drag-reducing techniques to conserve energy [∞] (2022)
• Robotic devices for paediatric rehabilitation: a review of design features [∞] (2021)
• Pilot investigation into osteotome hard surface coating and cutting-edge degradation [∞] (2020)

selected media engagement

• Who decided ‘normal’ was a 70kg man?, The SpinOff [∞] (2025)
• Wie Meeresschildkröten die Ozeane bezwingen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [∞] (2023)
• Research expedition in Australia Great Barrier Reef to study sea turtle biomechanics, NewsHub [∞] (2023)
• More robot than reptile: Watch Cornelia the Kiwi-built turtle, The New Zealand Herald [∞] (2023)
• Sharp tools reduce infection risk in bone surgeries, Medical XPress [∞] (2022)
• Stay sharp, surgeons — your patients depend on it, HealthCare in Europe [∞] (2022)
• Five minutes with Lorenzo Garcia,  Engineering New Zealand [∞] (2022)
• AUT BioDesign Lab: Testing boundaries, LiveNews [∞] (2022)
• Prosthetic fins for injured sea turtles, Islands Business [∞] (2021)
• Bioengineers develop prosthetic fins for sea turtles injured by trawling nets, NewsHub [∞] (2021)
• Injured turtles could be saved with prosthetic fin, Stuff [∞] (2021)

_{Keywords: acute care surgery, artificial muscle, assistive technology, bioengineering, bioinspired techonology, biomechanics, biomechanical engineering, biomechatronics, biomedical engineering, biomimetics, biologically inspired engineering, bionics, comparative biomechanics, design of medical devices, design requirements, emergency medicine, engineering design, ergonomics, evolutionary biomechanics, exoskeleton, finite element analysis (FEA), kinematics, health activism, human factors, humanitarian-use devices, humanitarian surgery, implant, injury, in Silico clinical trial, micro-CT, minimally invasive surgery, multi-body dynamics, multiphysics simulation, musculoskeletal disorders, neglected diseases, nitinol, orphan devices,  orthosis, pediatric, personalized medicine, product development, prosthesis, rare diseases, rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation technology, shape memory material, soft-robotics, trauma, veterinary.}