{"id":1277,"date":"2026-01-08T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:55:02","slug":"new-phd-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/2026\/01\/08\/new-phd-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"New PhD Graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Congratulations to\u00a0Dr <a id=\"ember39\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/salindi-herath-559b43252\/\">Salindi Herath<\/a> on officially joining the PhD club in Biomedical Engineering at the Medical Device Research Institute, <a class=\"BXxoERdkTWZbJAAaQbWNpScjXBPdKfHFOCkoQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/flinders-university\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">Flinders University<\/a>! \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/2026\/01\/08\/new-phd-graduate\/salindi-graduation\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1279 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2026\/01\/Salindi-graduation-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2026\/01\/Salindi-graduation-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2026\/01\/Salindi-graduation.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>Her thesis,\u00a0&#8220;Influence of Mechanical Factors on Bone Remodelling in the Proximal Tibia Following a Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty&#8221;, dives into how knee joint loading affects bone density in the first year after knee replacement \u2013 serious science with real impact for patients.<\/p>\n<p>Proudly ARC CMIT-funded through the <a class=\"BXxoERdkTWZbJAAaQbWNpScjXBPdKfHFOCkoQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/arc-training-centre-for-medical-implant-technologies\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">ARC Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies<\/a>, showcasing collaboration between world-class research and industry innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Huge shout out to her stellar supervisory team \u2013\u00a0Professor <a id=\"ember40\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/profmarktaylor\/\">Mark Taylor<\/a>,\u00a0Associate Professor <a id=\"ember41\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/david-hobbs-2606671\/\">David Hobbs<\/a>, and\u00a0Professor <a id=\"ember42\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dominic-thewlis-15291a2a1\/\">Dominic Thewlis<\/a> \u2013 for their guidance along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The MDRI community is cheering Salindi on as she takes this momentum into the next chapter of her career! \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to\u00a0Dr Salindi Herath on officially joining the PhD club in Biomedical Engineering at the Medical Device Research Institute, Flinders University! \ud83d\ude80 Her thesis,\u00a0&#8220;Influence of Mechanical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}