Dr. Christopher R. Dillon joined the BYU mechanical engineering faculty in 2021. Prior to coming to BYU, he spent four years as a Senior Computer Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories (’18-’21), where he developed and validated finite-element computational models of assembled systems in fire environments. As a postdoc in the Department of Radiology at the University of Utah (’14-’17), he was the recipient of a NIH NRSA fellowship supporting his work in non-invasively characterizing thermal, acoustic, and MRI properties of uterine fibroids. He received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from BYU (’09) and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Utah (’14).
Dr. Dillon loves how meshing mechanical and biomedical engineering enables the application of traditional engineering principles in novel ways to impact individuals and society for good. His current research areas include characterization of human tissue properties and bioheat transfer modeling for magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thermal therapies.
Dr. Dillon served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Albania from 2002 to 2004. He loves reading children’s books and having dance parties with his four children, mountain biking in the canyons of the Wasatch Front, and trying out recipes from The Great British Baking Show.