Zach Davis

Dr. Davis is a biomechanics consultant with a vast biomedical engineering background and a focus on tissue-level mechanics and medical imaging. Dr. Davis applies a multidisciplinary methodology to assess kinematics and injury mechanics in a wide range of environments that includes motor vehicles, workplace incidents, and recreational activities. His work directly applies to quantifying tissue content and mechanical properties using multiple imaging techniques as well as directly measuring tissue mechanics.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Davis completed his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Purdue University. His research focused on using MRI outputs to predict scaffold content and collagen microarchitecture. He also compared mechanical outputs in genetic knockout mice to control counterparts, accounting for weight and sex-based differences. His work includes using semi-automated segmentations in various tissue types from medical imaging platforms, evaluating both clinical and pre-clinical MRI outputs, and mechanically testing multiple tissues sourced from multiple different animal models.

Additional works of interest include: designing a pneumatic MRI compatible loading device for soft tissues; culturing cartilage tissue and tissue-engineered hydrogels for mechanical loading; creating software to generate pixel-wise quantitative-MRI outputs; using dimensional-reduction techniques to evaluate high-dimensional datasets from mouse models