Research

Research Areas

  • Cardiac Solid Mechanics

    Study how cardiac tissue deforms and responds to physiological conditions (e.g., exercise, pregnancy) and diseases (e.g., hypertension, myocardial infarction).

  • Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics

    Analyze the flow of blood within the body. Fluid dynamics are essential in developing tissue-engineered vascular grafts, aneurysm formation, and congenital heart diseases.

  • Growth and Remodeling

    Understand and predict long-term tissue adaptation in regeneration and disease progression to identify patients at risk and enable personalized therapies.

Approach and tools

  • Finite Element Simulations

    Fuse multi-modal imaging data (e.g., MRI, CT, ultrasound) with measurements (e.g., blood pressure, ECG) to generate 3D continuum models of patients’ hearts and blood vessels.

  • Reduced Order Modeling

    Physics-based (e.g., 1D/0D fluid dynamics) and data-driven (e.g., POD) models allow fast repeated model evaluations (e.g., optimization, parameter estimation)

  • Uncertainty Quantification

    Accounts for variations in input parameters and boundary conditions to quantify the reliability of our findings by providing probability distributions of our predictions.

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