My Expertise
- biomedical engineering, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, coronary flow, simulations, modelling, medical imaging, deep learning / machine learning, fluid dynamics
Biomedical engineering, specifically fluid dynamics and mechanics of cardiovascular arteries to understand and control biological systems to inform clinical intervention such as stent implants. This included medical imaging and analysis, optimisation and experimental fluid dynamic and mechanical testing.
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Fields of Research (FoR)
Biomedical fluid mechanics, Biomedical imaging, Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)SEO tags
Biography
PHD RESEARCH TOPICS AVAILABLE - Please see here https://www.svmgroup.org/projects for topics, and for more information on Susann's group see https://www.svmgroup.org/ and contact Susann for more information.
Susann likes swimming, research and drinks too much coffee. Originally from Germany, she has an educational background in mechanical, chemical and materials and biomedical engineering. Her passion is to help people with heart disease, the...view more
PHD RESEARCH TOPICS AVAILABLE - Please see here https://www.svmgroup.org/projects for topics, and for more information on Susann's group see https://www.svmgroup.org/ and contact Susann for more information.
Susann likes swimming, research and drinks too much coffee. Originally from Germany, she has an educational background in mechanical, chemical and materials and biomedical engineering. Her passion is to help people with heart disease, the single largest killer in the world, by using innovations across computer science, medicine and bioengineering domains to make a difference in the field.
My Grants
- NHMRC Idea $593,000, 2021
- NHF Vanguard grant $150,000, 2020
- RIS $250,000 3D printing $250,000, 2019
- Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) Project grant $153,000 NZD, 2017
- Auckland Academic Health Alliance (AAHA) Collaboration Fund $100,000 NZD, 2016
- Cardiovascular Research Innovations Grant $35,000 AUD by the Cardiovascular Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2016
My Qualifications
- BE (Hon) Mechanical Engineering
- ME Chemical and Materials Engineering
- PhD Biomedical Sciences
My Awards
- Eng Future Women Leaders Conference Award (Monash University, University of Melbourne and UNSW), 2019
- The Australian Academy of Sciences Travel Award for ECR, 2018
- Heart Foundation Fellowship, 2017
- Visiting Fellow, Stanford University, 2017
- Cardiovascular Research Innovations Award by the Cardiovascular Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2016
- Auckland Charitable Heart Trust, Research Fellowship, 2015
- Emerging Research of the Year Award, 2015
- Emerging Research of the Year Award, 2013
- Laval University Travel Award, 2010
My Research Activities
Susann drives important engineering innovations in cardiovascular medicine (see outputs).
See the Coronary Atlas website and the Sydney Vascular Modelling Group's page for more info.
Speaking
- Australian Bifurcation Club ABC, Sydney, Keynote 2020
- IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society EMBS 2019
- Invited Chair, European Bifurcation Club EBC, Brussel, 2018
- European Bifurcation Club EBC, Porto, Portugal, 2017
- European Bifurcation Club EBC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Keynote, 2016
- Research Bazaar ResBaz, Auckland, New Zealand, Keynote, 2016
- Annual Meeting of the Cardiovascular Society CSANZ, Auckland, New Zealand, Keynote, 2015
- MICCAI CVII-STENT, presentation, 2015
- European Bifurcation Club EBC, presentation, 2015
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
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Stent design optimisation
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Big data image analysis for personalised preventive cardiovascular medicine
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Super-computing for automated vascular simulations assisting clinical surgery
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Real-life surgery with virtual reality
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Imaging of cell behaviour under flow conditions in artery replicas
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Fabrication of realistic artery replicas using advanced 3D printing
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CFD study of diseased arteries to assist patient treatment
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Micro- and Biofluidics cutting-edge teaching
My Engagement
University affiliations
Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland
University administrative responsibilities
Chair of the IT Committee of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Chair of the Engineering Early Career Academic (ECA) committee
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Member, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Co-Chair and Leadership group of the Cardiac and Health Academic Group
Editorial positions
Associate Editor, BioMedical Engineering Online
My Teaching
MECH9650 Micro- and Biofluidics
Location
Level 4, Room 401D
UNSW, Kensington Campus
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
Map reference (Google map)
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9815-108X
Research Activities
Enhance the next generation of immersive technologies for medical surgeries. Learn how imaging, visualisation and personalised simulations can be used to assist with difficult surgeries, ranging from the spine to heart atrial fibrillation intervention, all with 3D visualisation in real time, so 4D.
Research project seeking students: Stents are meshed wired scaffolds implanted into narrowed arteries to prevent heart attacks and strokes. They still fail in 1 in 10 patients besides being the most common treatment for the largest cause of death world-wide.
The aim of this work is to generate CAD models from micro-CT images of stented patient replicas. The replicas represent the anatomical/geometric distribution found within a large population. The CAD models will be used to generate CFD simulation of the blood flow, revealing their effectiveness for that patient…
Stents are meshed wired scaffolds implanted into narrowed arteries to prevent heart attacks and strokes. They still fail in 1 in 10 patients besides being the most common treatment for the largest cause of death world-wide.
The aim of our work is to expand a number of numerical CFD simulations to generate input for a developed multi-object algorithm. The optimum design trade offs for modern stents can then be determined through several iterations of solutions.
The specific outcome are new guidelines for clinicians to be implemented in practice,…
Research Project seeking students: Cardiovascular disease is the single largest killer in the world, causing heart attacks and strokes. Experimental investigation of underlying principals are key in combating this epidemic, however individual considerations are still completely missing.
We are continuously expanding the Coronary Atlas, which is a virtual map of arterial shape and blood flow. Using in-house build tools to run bash programmed batch processes on the National Computing Infrastructure we can fast process hundreds of medical CT images at the time. These are then…
Cardiovascular disease is the single largest killer in the world, causing heart attacks and strokes. Experimental investigation of underlying principals are key in combating this epidemic, however individual considerations are still completely missing.
The aim of this work is to develop accurate machine learning neural networks to identify links between a large set of demographic, arterial shape and flow data with clinical risk. This will help to identify biomarkers which can be deployed in clinical practice for early risk detection.
Available data will be…
