UNIVERSITY OF BERN, SWITZERLAND
PhD in Biomedical Engineering
(summa cum laude)
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DRESDEN, GERMANY
Diplom-Ingenieurin (MSc.) in Mechanical Engineering with specialization Aerospace Engineering
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, USA
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Segmented medical images for patient-specific modeling of rare congenital heart diseases and virtual surgical repair using AI-based, expert-guided methods.
Evaluated heart valve performance using fluid-structure interaction simulations before and after neonatal cardiac surgery on high-performance computing platforms.
Collaborated with pediatric cardiac surgeons at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Presented scientific output at multiple international conferences and internal conferences at Stanford University.
UNIVERSITY OF BERN, SWITZERLAND
PhD Candidate and Postdoctoral Scholar, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research
Received the GCB Best Thesis Award 2024 and Winner of the Gallery of Fluid Motion Award (APS DFD 2024, Salt Lake City, USA).
Published multiple first-authored and co-authored publications in high-impact journals and presented at international engineering and medical conferences.
Identified the onset of turbulence in the flow field around different bioprosthetic aortic valve designs using fluid-structure interaction simulations on high-performance computing platforms to guide optimized bioprosthetic aortic valve design.
Collaborated with the Department of Cardiology at Inselspital University Hospital Bern.
Supervised student thesis, substituted lectures and led tutorials as teaching assistant in Fluid Mechanics.
KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SWEDEN
Visiting PhD Candidate, Department of Mechanics
Bridged disciplines of stability theory and numerical fluid-structure interaction simulations on high-performance computing platforms of bioprosthetic heart valves to advance understanding of laminar-turbulent transition in valve prostheses.
Received the University of Bern Short Travel Grant for (Post)Docs.
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DRESDEN, GERMANY
Master Student, Institute of Fluid Mechanics
Performed Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of the fluid-structure interaction of turbulent flow around vegetation structures with in-house fluid-structure interaction code running on HPC.
Taught courses of Engineering Design (CAD) and Fluid Mechanics.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Visiting Academic, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Evaluated machine learning closure model performance (Gene Expression Programming) for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations in comparison with Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and experimental data.
Received the PROMOS Scholarship (DAAD).