H2020 MUSICARE

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).