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Michal Jaworek

PhD student @POLIMI on Innovative platforms for realistic clinician training in the lab

Michal Jaworek was born in 1988. He obtained his master degree in biomedical engineering at AGH Krakow University of Science and Technology in Poland in 2012. His master thesis project was carried out at Helmholtz Institute, RWTH Aachen and Uniklinik Aachen, Germany. The thesis focused on development of mock ventricle to reproduce Frank-Starling mechanism and its validation in experimental set up (recognised by Polish Society of Biomedical Engineering and Biocibernetics in a competition for best 2012 master thesis in the field of biomedical engineering). Between 2012 and 2015 he was a employed as Junior R&D Engineer at Foundation of Cardiac Surgery Development in Zabrze, Poland where he was responsible for development of control-measurement systems dedicated for ventricular assist devices evaluation in the lab.Currently, he is a Marie Curie fellow within MUSICA project (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) and PhD Candidate at Politecnico di Milano. His research focuses on mock circulation loops development for clinical training in the lab.

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Giorgia Rocatello

PhD student @UGENT on Simulation of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)

Giorgia Rocatello was born in Italy in 1989. She obtained her bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering at Universita' degli studi di Padova (Padua, Italy) in 2012, and her master degree at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in 2015. She worked on her master thesis at Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium), within a collaboration between the Ibitech-Biommeda research group at Ugent and the Laboratory of biological structure mechanics at Politecnico di Milano. During this project, she performed fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations of aortic valves using an innovative FSI environment in Abaqus. Currently, she is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at Ugent within the MUSICA (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) project. Her research, in collaboration with FEops, a spin-off company from Ugent, focuses on mechanical simulations of transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI), as a tool for procedural planning able to predict related outcomes.

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Fabrice Bondji Ngabang

Researcher @SORIN on Devices and tools for minimally invasive cardiac surgery interventions

Fabrice BONDJI NGABANG was born in 1986 in Cameroon, he obtained his Master degree in Industrial Chemistry from University of Turin in 2014. His master thesis was developed at Grenoble INP Pagora in collaboration with Bluestar Silicone (Lyon) during his Erasmus period in France. It regarded the  use of nanocelluloses as reinforcements in silicone composites. After his graduation, he worked for 6 months at FIAT CHRYSLER AUTOMOBILES as Research Fellow within the Nanovalid EU project focused on the development of reference methods for hazard identification, risk assessment and Life Cycle Assessment  (LCA) of engineered nanomaterials. Currently, he is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher within the MUSICA project (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) at Sorin Group Italia s.r.l (LivaNova). The aims of his research concerns the development of devices and tools for minimally invasive cardiac surgery interventions.

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Selene Pirola

PhD student @IMPERIAL on Patient-specific assessment of hemodynamic performance of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)

Selene Pirola was born in Italy in 1990. She completed her BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in 2012 and 2015, respectively. In her master thesis project, carried out in the Biomechanics Research Group at Politecnico di Milano, she developed a platform for the analysis of 4D flow MRI data for the evaluation of the fluid-dynamic alterations induced in the ascending aorta by the bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease. Her research interests include applications of computational fluid mechanics (CFD), fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and imaging techniques in the study of the cardiovascular systems, as well as analysis, design, and optimizations of cardiovascular devices. She is currently a Marie Curie fellow within the MUSICA project (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) and a PhD candidate at Imperial College London in the χμ Group . Her research focuses on the patient-specific assessment of the fluid-dynamic performance of TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation).

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Patricio Javier Astudillo

PhD student @FEops on Simulation of transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement

Patricio Javier Astudillo, born in 1985, completed his BSc in Digital Arts & Entertainment (HOWEST) in Kortrijk and his MSc in Civil Engineering - Computer Science (VUB) in Brussels, both Cum Laude. In his master thesis, he developed a distributed back-in-time debugger for ambient-oriented programs. After working as a R&D software engineer at Amadeus Nice in France, he's currently working at FEops (a spin-off of the UGent) as a Marie Curie fellow within the MUSICA project (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) and a PhD candidate at the UGent. The scope of his research on simulation of trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) include improving algorithms of the finite element analyses (FEA), verifying the automation possibilities for handling medical- and 3/4D images and validating novel 3/4D visualization techniques with patient data.

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Joao Luis Silva Canaveira Tourais

PhD student @PHILIPS on Comprehensive quantification and visualization of valve function & flow

Joao Tourais was born in Lisbon (Portugal) in 1992. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics at University of Lisbon in 2013, with a project focused on MR image processing methods for PET/MRI developed in the University Hospital Zurich (STSM COST Action TD1007). In 2015 he obtained his Master of Science (MSc) degree in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics from the University of Lisbon. His master thesis focused on the implementation and evaluation of a new MRI approach for whole-heart T2 mapping of the myocardium and was develop at King’s College London. Currently, he is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at Philips (Best, The Netherlands) within the MUSICA (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) project. His research focuses on dynamic 3D MRI whole-heart segmentation and quantification.

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Guruprasad Krishnamoorthy

PhD student @PHILIPS on Comprehensive quantification and visualization of cardiovascular function & flow

Guru was born in India in 1988. He is fascinated by the physics governing Magnetic Resonance Imaging and methods for diagnosis and monitoring treatment response of various diseases including neurological disorders, Musculoskeletal disorders, and cardiovascular diseases. He earned his Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering degree from PSG College of Technology, India in 2010, Master of Science degree from Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA in 2015. While doing his coursework at Drexel University, he worked as Student researcher at the Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging, University of Pennsylvania, USA. In this role, he developed techniques to image potential biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and Osteoarthritis at ultra-high field MRI. He is currently an early stage researcher at Philips supported by Marie Curie Fellowship under MUSICA project. The research goal is to develop a comprehensive MRI application to image and quantify blood flow in and around the human heart in a practically achievable scan time for routine clinical evaluation.

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Luca Barbarotta

PhD student @TU/e on Modeling tools for data extraction

Luca Barbarotta was born in Italy in 1987. He obtained his Master Degree in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2014. During his master he worked on an imaging project where, with the help of other two colleagues, he developed a C++ parallel library for 3D medical images treatment. His master thesis main topic was the mathematical and numerical modelling of the human left ventricle applied to a patient specific reconstructed geometry. After his degree, he worked at EPFL as research assistant in the CMCS group where he carried on his work on cardiac mechanics and he contributed in the development of the electro-mechanical branch of the C++ finite elements parallel library LifeV. Currently, he is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher and a PhD candidate at TU/e within the MUSICA project (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care). His research concerns data extraction and the patient specific modelling of cardiac electromechanics.

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Federico Cané

PhD student @UGENT on Quantification of intra-cardiac flow

Federico Cané, born in 1990, completed his BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, respectively, in July 2012 and April 2015. The master thesis project was developed in collaboration with the Artificial Heart Lab of the Pennsylvania State University; it regarded the fluid dynamical evaluation within a 12 cc Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device coupling an in vitro evaluation by means of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique and an innovative CFD model based on a moving mesh approach. Currently, he is a Marie Curie early Stage Researcher within the MUSICA project (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to Cardiac care) and also a PhD student at Ghent University. The aim of his research is to develop a CFD model based on the segmentation of 4D MRI data in order to characterize the intracardiac flow.

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Yağmur Gülkanat

PhD student @MATERIALISE on 4D segmentation and measurements for transcatheter heart valve implantation

Yağmur Gülkanat was born in Turkey in 1987. She obtained her BSc degree in Mathematics at Ege University (Tr) in 2011, and her MSc degree in Computational Science and Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (Tr) in 2014. Her thesis was about “Modeling of Blood Flow and Vessel Wall Interaction for Stenosed Coronary Arteries”. Also, during her master, she learned using image processing tools for patient specific CT datasets. She has a good knowledge about C++ programming. Currently, she is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher within the MUSICA (Multisectoral Integrative Approaches to Cardiac care) project. She is a Research Engineer at Materialise (Be) and also a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and UGent under the framework of MUSICA. Her research is focused on designing new algorithms for 4D cardiac image analysis and segmentation, and validation of the developed methods and algorithms.

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Daniela Cruz Moreira

PhD student @POLIMI on Development of a lab-on-chip platform for preconditioning adult-derived stem cells for tissue engineering

Daniela Cruz Moreira is a biomedical engineer passionate about the exercise of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. She was born in Porto (Portugal) in 1990. Her main areas of interest are Cell and Tissue Engineering and Biosystems Innovation. In 2009 she attended the research training program at Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica – INEB (Porto, Portugal) collaborating on a project whose main field of study was the foreign body reaction to biomaterials. She graduated in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 and afterwards, in 2014, she earned her Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) with a thesis related to the conception of a fully integrated lab-on-a-chip sensor platform capable of being clinically implemented for point-of-care pathogen detection. Since then, she matured a genuine interest in this bioscience-based engineering concept and focused her attention in projects related to microfluidics for biological research. Currently, she is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher within the Multisectoral Integrative Approaches to Cardiac care (MUSICA project) and also a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Her research activity concerns the conception, development and validation of lab-on-a-chip platforms for preconditioning adult-derived stem cells for cardiac tissue engineering.

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Emanuele Rondanina

PhD student @TU/e on Modeling tools for clinical decision making

Emanuele Rondanina was born in Genoa (Italy) in 1989. He obtained his Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Genoa in 2014. His master thesis project has been developed in collaboration with the University of Stockholm the KTH. The thesis topic concerned a numerical modelling of different scenarios of retinal detachment in the vitreous chamber of the human eye. Here the fluid motion has been solved with the Navier-Stokes equation while the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) has been described with the Immersed Boundary Method (Peskin, 2002). In the 2015 he completed an internship with Carestream Healthcare as client support specialist for RIS databases and PACS software provided at European hospitals. Currently, he is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at Eindhoven within the MUSICA project (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care). His research focuses on a patient specific cardiac model to predict short and long-term outcome of surgical intervention.

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Dario Farotto

PhD student @MATERIALISE on Implementation of a tool for scaffold design with application in the engineering of heart valves

Dario Farotto was born in Milan in 1989. Ambitious engineer with strong interest in biomedical applications, he obtained his bachelor degree at Politecnico di Milano (It) in 2011 and his master degree at TU Delft (Nl) in 2014. The thesis, developed in collaboration with Leiden University Medical Center, was related to the estimation of joint admittance for clinical applications. In 2014 he worked for Philips research Eindhoven (Nl) on a project related with ECG reconstruction. Currently he’s a research scientist at Materialise (Be) and a PhD Candidate at KU Leuven under the MUSICA framework. The goal of his research activity is to develop novel methods to estimate material properties of aortic tissue with non-invasive methods, with a specific focus on thoracic aneurysms.

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Sebastião van Uden

PhD student @BEL on Development of scaffold and bioreactor technologies for the engineering of heart valve models

Sebastião van Uden (born in 1988) concluded, in 2014, his Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. Although certified by the Catholic University of Portugal, his Master thesis was developed at the Associate Laboratory ICVS/3B’s (Biomaterials, Biodegradables & Biomimetic) at the University of Minho. Its main focus was on the development of a biofabrication strategy to tackle intervertebral disc degeneration by developing a custom-tailored annulus fibrosus scaffold, by means of three dimensional (3D) printing, as well as an injectable hydrogel to regenerate the nucleus pulposus. This research work covered different scientific and laboratory techniques within cell culture, polymer chemistry, and materials’ processing, as well as 3D modelling and computer-aided design. Currently, Sebastião is working as part of the Research & Development team of Bioengineering Laboratories S.r.l. (BEL), in Cantù, under the MUSICA (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) project as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, while taking his PhD in Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano. His research is focused on the development of novel technologies for the engineering of reliable 3D heart valve models, as a platform for the development of new therapeutic tools and for the screening of new drugs.

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Noemi Vanerio

PhD student @LIFETEC on Development of catheter-based light-enhanced therapies

Noemi Vanerio was born in Como (Italy) in 1990. She obtained her Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2012, with a thesis focused on the optimization of a measurement system aimed at evaluating the compliance of arterial and venous small and medium caliber human blood vessels in tissue engineering field. In 2015 she obtained her Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering – Biomechanics and Biomaterials – at Politecnico di Milano. Her master thesis focused on the design and development of a portable hemodialysis device and the characterization of the blood circuit in terms of reliability, hemolysis rate, functionality and efficiency in blood purification. Currently, she is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at LifeTec Group (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) within the MUSICA (MUltiSectoral Integrative approaches to CArdiac care) project. Her research focuses on the design and development of a catheter-based device that will enable light-enhanced treatment of arteries from the lumen in minimally invasive therapies.

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