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Robin Cleveland
PhD
Professor of Engineering Science
Fellow of Magdalen College
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College: Magdalen College
Location: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Marcela Botnar Wing, Oxford OX3 7LD
Site: Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
Research Building: Botnar Research Centre

Robin Cleveland is Professor of Engineering Science and Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin where his doctoral research was on sonic boom propagation in the atmosphere. Upon completion of his PhD he was award the F.V. Hunt Fellowship of the Acoustical Society of America which he carried out at the University of Washington in Seattle studying shock wave lithotripsy – breaking of kidney stones by shock waves.

After two years in Seattle, Robin joined the faculty at Boston University where he remained for fourteen years rising to the rank of Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In 2011 he joined the University of Oxford, working in the BUBBL research group.

Robin carries out research in nonlinear acoustics with particular application to biomedical ultrasound.

Areas of research include: shock wave lithotripsy, high intensity focused ultrasound surgery for thermal ablation, nonlinear distortion of B-mode diagnostic ultrasound, the development of shelled microbubble for ultrasound theranostics (targeted imaging and drug-delivery).

BUBBL: Non-Invasive Therapy & Drug Delivery

  • Chair, 22nd International Symposium of Nonlinear Acoustics, Oxford, 2022.
  • International Scientific chair, 20th Symposium of the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound, Gyeongju, Korea 2021.
  • Invited Speaker, British Association of Urological Surgeons Virtual Annual Meeting (2020).
  • Invited Speaker, Frontier Acoustics Symposium, Shenhzen, China (2017)
  • Plenary Speaker, International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, Lyon, France (2015)
  • ASA Bruce Lindsey Award (2000)
  • ASA Hunt Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Acoustics (1995-6)
Featured Publications by Professor Cleveland
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Foam gratings as an alternative to customized acoustic lenses
Richards LA,  Stride E,  Cleveland RO,  et al. (2023)
Transcranial ultrasound stimulation in humans is associated with an auditory confound that can be effectively masked
Braun V,  Blackmore J,  Cleveland RO,  Butler CR,  et al. (2023)
Modulating ultrasound field phase and amplitude using foam gratings as an alternative to acoustic lenses
Richards LA,  Stride EP,  Cleveland RO,  et al. (2023)
Spatio-temporal evaluation of anti-biofilm cavitation activity by passive acoustic mapping
Keller S,  LuTheryn G,  Gray M,  Stride EP,  Cleveland RO,  Coussios C,  et al. (2022)
Foam gratings as an alternative to customised acoustic lenses
Richards LA,  Stride EP,  Cleveland RO,  et al. (2021)
Lipid-mRNA Nanoparticle Designed to Enhance Intracellular Delivery Mediated by Shock Waves
Zhang J,  Shrivastava S,  Cleveland RO,  Rabbitts T,  et al. (2019)
Concussion, microvascular injury, and early tauopathy in young athletes after impact head injury and an impact concussion mouse model
Tagge CA,  Fisher AM,  Minaeva OV,  Gaudreau-Balderrama A,  Moncaster JA,  Zhang X-L,  Wojnarowicz MW,  Casey N,  Lu H,  Kokiko-Cochran ON,  Saman S,  Ericsson M,  Onos KD,  Veksler R,  Senatorov VV,  Kondo A,  Zhou XZ,  Miry O,  Vose LR,  Gopaul KR,  Upreti C,  Nowinski CJ,  Cantu RC,  Alvarez VE,  Hildebrandt AM,  et al. (2018)
Full modeling of high-intensity focused ultrasound and thermal heating in the kidney using realistic patient models
Suomi V,  Jaros J,  Treeby B,  Cleveland R,  et al. (2018)
HIFU-induced changes in optical scattering and absorption of tissue over nine orders of thermal dose
Raymond J,  Cleveland RO,  Roy RA,  et al. (2018)
Aneurysm Growth Rate Estimation
LEE R,  HANDA A,  CLEVELAND R,  et al. (2018)