The Computational Cardiovascular Science group is an interdisciplinary team of scientists aiming at translating their background in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Biology to Cardiovascular Research. Each of our teammates has a different range of skill sets and we enjoy combining them to contribute to improving the understanding of the human hearts in health and disease, and to develop new mathematical and computational methodologies for Cardioascular Research.
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Blanca Rodriguez Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Sciences Professor of Computational Medicine Principal investigator within the BHF CRE |
Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology Mechanisms determining variability in the response of the human heart to anti-arrhythmic therapy in acute myocardial ischaemia, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation. |
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Vicente Grau Professor of Biomedical Image Analysis Director of Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation |
Biomedical image analysis Development of novel algorithms for biomedical image analysis in combination with computational models, and their application in cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine. |
Vicente's profile | |
Alfonso Bueno-Orovio
British Heart Foundation Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Principal investigator within the BHF CRE |
Integrative approaches for Cardiovascular Research Interplay between cardiac function and structure in modulating deadly arrhythmias in the human heart, computer modelling and simulation towards a reduction and replacement of animals in research and safer drugs in human, and advanced mathematical modelling for cardiac tissue and magnetic resonance imaging. |
Alfonso's profile | |
Kevin Burrage Visiting Professor, 2016-2019. |
Development of novel modelling and simulation approaches in Computational Biology To capture the underlying variability in dynamical processes and to characterise the heterogeneity in biological tissues through stochastic and nonlocal multiscale techniques. |
Kevin's profile | |
Yoram Rudy Visiting Professor of Computational Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis |
Cardiac Bioelectricity, Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias, Computational Biology and Modeling of the Heart, Cardiac Electrical Imaging and Mapping Understanding the mechanisms that underlie normal and abnormal rhythms of the heart at various scales, from the molecular and cellular to the whole organ. The development of novel non-invasive imaging modalities (Electrocardiographic Imaging, ECGI) for the diagnosis and guided therapy of cardiac arrhythmias. |
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Elisa Passini Senior Postdoctoral Researcher |
Computational modelling and simulation in Safety Pharmacology
Human in silico drug testing for the prediction of safety and efficacy of drug action in human.
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Xin Zhou Senior Research Associate |
The development and use of mathematical models of human ventricular cell electrophysiology
To investigate the effect of variability in the generation of potential pro-arrhythmic conditions in human ventricles. Especially, the modelling of the ionic mechanisms underlying excitation-contraction coupling, genetic disorders in ion channels, and drug response in human. |
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Linford Briant Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow |
Mechanisms regulating glucagon secretion from pancreatic alpha-cells | Linford's profile | |
Zhinuo (Jenny) Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher |
Modeling heart electrophysiology and arrhythmia risk stratification in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Developing 3D computational models of the heart to investigate the effect of hypertrophic-related heterogeneities in the electrical properties of the myocardium on its susceptibility to arrhythmia. |
Jenny's profile | |
Lei Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher |
Electromechanical modelling of the heart
Develop fast computational toolkits to reproduce the heart structure and function, including ionic dynamics and activation (electrophysiology), contraction and pump blood (mechanics) and scar growth and remodelling (biochemistry), and search key mechanisms in myocardial infarction (MI), aiming to aid clinical management and drug development for MI. |
Lei's profile | |
Aditi Roy Postdoctoral Researcher |
Computational modelling and simulations in Atrial Fibrillation
Development of multiscale computer models of human atrial electrophysiology, built through the integration of multimodality datasets. Investigate variability in atrial fibrillation mechanisms through computer simulation studies using populations of models, informed by clinical datasets. |
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Rubén Doste Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Computational modelling and simulation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Development of personalised human ventricular models and conduction of high performance computing studies to investigate risk stratification and tailoring of pharmacological therapy in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. |
Ruben's profile |
Karen Barnes PA to Prof Blanca Rodriguez |
Personal Assistant to Prof Blanca Rodriguez | Karen's profile | |
Jakub Tomek Postdoctoral Researcher |
Interdisciplinary investigation of cardiac function Using a combination of detailed human-based computational modelling with wet-lab experiments and data analysis to understand the mechanisms underlying cardiac [dys]function, with focus on arrhythmogenesis. |
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Students | |||
Cristian Trovato DPhil in Computer Science, 2016-2019 |
Drug effects on the cardiac Purkinje system | Cristian's profile | |
Peter Marinov DPhil in Computer Science, 2016-2019 |
A modelling and ECGi approach to Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy | Peter's profile | |
Julià Camps
DPhil in Computer Science, 2017-2020 |
Machine learning for ECG signals | Julia's profile | |
Beth McMillan
DPhil in Computer Science, 2015-2018
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Predicting drug-induced Torsades de Pointes arrhythmias
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Francesca Margara
Marie Curie DPhil Fellow, 2018-2021 |
Personalised analysis of drug safety and efficacy
Personalised models of human cardiac electromechanical physiology to predict the safety and efficacy of pharmacological action in the individual subject. |
Francesca's profile | |
Hao Xu
DPhil in Computer Science, 2015-2019 |
Biomedical Image Analysis
Automated segmentation of Cardiac MRI scans based on deep learning. Anatomical and functional analysis of left ventricle. |
Hao's profile | |
Jorge Corral Acero
Marie Curie DPhill Fellow, 2018-2021 |
Cardiomyopathy under the lenses of cardiac MRI & computer models
Synergies of cardiac MRI and computer models to address hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: CMR analysis, based on deep learning approaches and combination of ML techniques and personalised models. |
Jorge's profile | |
James Coleman DPhil in Computer Science 2020-2023 |
Mechanistic investigations of structural-functional interplay as causal mechanisms of arrhythmic risk in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Development of human multiscale biventricular bidomain models of HCM patients to include patient-specific ischemic and fibrotic burdens, to stratify arrhythmic risk. |
James' profile | |
Hannah Smith DPhil in Computer Science 2019-2023 |
Computational investigation into the interplay between pro-arrhythmic and mechanical abnormalities |
Hanna's profile | |
Luana Riebel DPhil in Computer Science 2020-2023 |
My main research interest is how we can use computer simulation to provide a more ethical, accurate, faster and cheaper representation of biomedical processes. In my final year of my Master's degree I was part of a group research project aiming to predicting alarm validity by using machine learning on ECG signals, which sparked my interest in cardiovascular science. |
Luana's profile | |
Max Cumberland BHF/NC3Rs PhD student at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham |
Use of induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes to test the consequences of genetic variants in atrial and ventricular arrhythmias Using iPSC-CM cellular systems and computational modelling to investigate the impact truncating variants in the gene titin have on atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias
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Albert Dasí i Martinez Marie Curie DPhil Fellow, 2020-2023 |
Atrial state characterization and treatment improvement in the context of atrial fibrillation Brief description: To deliver new technologies and novel strategies for individualized characterization of atrial fibrillation substrate to and increase treatments’ efficiency. |
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Ambre Bertrand DPhil in Computer Science (EPSRC CDT in Health Data Science), 2021-2025 |
Dissecting disease heterogeneity in heart failure patients using multi-modal machine learning, modelling, and simulation methods. |
Ambre's profile |