Jordi Alastruey-Arimon
BHF Research Fellow
Email: jordi.alastruey-arimon@kcl.ac.uk
Qualifications
MEng, PhD
Biography
Dr Alastruey is a British Heart Foundation research fellow working on the project 'Modelling pulse wave propagation in arteries and veins: Application to cardiovascular disease and its treatment'. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and obtained a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London. His thesis focused on the development, validation and application of a nonlinear one-dimensional model of pulse wave propagation in arterial networks. He then conducted postdoctoral research on computational flow modelling in the cardiovascular system and the nasal cavity at the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College. Before joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2011, he started his fellowship at the Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College
Research interests
Dr Alastruey’s fellowship focuses on the development of novel models of wave propagation in blood vessels and methods to infer physical properties of the system that are clinically relevant from data that can be measured in the clinic. These models and methods are tested using pressure, flow and anatomical data obtained in the human and rabbit, and are applied to address clinically relevant hypotheses.
Other areas of interest include the computational modelling of cerebral blood flow and auto-regulation, the study of blood flow in curved vessels, focusing on the effect of vascular geometry on blood flow-related quantities associated with disease, the reconstruction of vascular geometries from medical images, and the study of airflow in airways and the nasal cavity.
Group Members
Dr Anthony Hunt, Research Assistant