PhD in blood flow simulations

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Are you ambitious, passionate about science, and eager to solve complex biomedical questions through computational methods? We (the Computational Science Laboratory) are looking for a PhD candidate to join our team of researchers.

What are you going to do?

Your main objective will be to develop, validate, and apply a new computational model to simulate the flow of red blood cells, platelets, and other components under specific disease and medical device related conditions. You will build on the Multiscale Modelling and Simulation Framework and develop your model within HemoCell to realize an efficient, high performance computational method that can provide answers to complex biological questions in the context of human vascular diseases, such as thrombosis, hemostasis. You will cooperate with external experimental groups throughout the process.

You will:

• develop a new multiscale computational model within HemoCell, adding the molecular level, adding biochemistry, and adding platelet adhesion and aggregation, and apply it in the context of human vascular diseases;
• complete and defend a PhD thesis within the official appointment duration of four years;
• collaborate with other researchers within our group and in external groups;
• regularly present intermediate research results at international conferences and workshops, and publish them in proceedings and journals;
• assist in relevant teaching activities.

Background information

The Multiscale Modelling and Simulation Framework defines a theoretical approach to multiscale modelling, a simulation framework to develop and run multiscale simulations and a set of tools and middleware to execute and manage multiscale computations on a broad array of computing infrastructure, from the desktop to HPC environments.

HemoCell is our open-source cellular flow modelling toolkit. It is used by several groups around the world in investigations spanning from basic research topics on cellular transport mechanism to more applied topics on endovascular medical devices.

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