Personal statement
Dr Asimina Kazakidi is a Senior Lecturer in Biofluids Mechanics at the University of Strathclyde, where she initially joined as Lecturer in 2016. Prior to that, Asimina was a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH), in Greece, and Research Associate at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, within the cardiovascular science research theme funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF). She obtained her Ph.D. in Biofluid Dynamics from the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, where she also completed an MSc in ‘Engineering and Physical Science in Medicine’ at Department of Bioengineering.
Asimina (Melina) has an extended experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Her work has focused on complex biofluid mechanics problems, utilising a range of CFD methods. She has a specialised knowledge in all aspects of numerical simulation technology processes and in the communication of complex results.
Teaching
"Numerical Modelling in Biomedical Engineering", MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Semester 2
Research interests
• biofluid mechanics
• computational fluid dynamics
• cardiovascular flows
• bio-inspired robotic locomotion
Professional activities
- Blood Flow Analysis of the Aortic Arch using Computational Fluid Dynamics in a Coupled 3D-0D Framework
- Speaker
- 27/2/2020
- Computational haemodynamics in arterial geometries in relation to atherosclerosis and obesity-induced vascular changes
- Invited speaker
- 22/11/2019
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Visiting researcher
- 22/11/2019
- Computational haemodynamics in arterial geometries in relation to obesity-induced cardiovascular diseases
- Speaker
- 21/5/2019
- 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics Minisymposium
- Organiser
- 25/7/2018
- 8th World Congress of Biomechanics Pre-Conference Workshop
- Organiser
- 8/7/2018
More professional activities
Projects
- Digital twin guided minimally invasive, intelligent and intuitive surgery (MI-3 Surgery)
- Shu, Will (Principal Investigator) Kazakidi, Asimina (Co-investigator) Luo, Xichun (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2023
- STEM Equals- Rational design of novel microfluidics devices for evaluating nanomedicine in vitro biological fate
- Rattray, Zahra (Principal Investigator) Kazakidi, Asimina (Co-investigator) Sandison, Mairi (Co-investigator) Perrie, Yvonne (Co-investigator)
- Nanotechnology in health has emerged as a promising solution to addressing unmet clinical need. While demonstrating significant promise and industrial uptake- pipeline attrition rates for nanomedicines remain high, significantly hampering the bench-to-clinic translation of nanomedicines. This is in part due to a lack of models adequately measuring and predicting biological fate. This project uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to aid the rational design of microfluidics devices mimicking human blood vasculature. It is anticipated that using CFD, we will be able to design more physiologically-relevant models of blood flow that can be used in the evaluation of nanomedicine biological fate.
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
- Aortic arch haemodynamics in adult women with Turner syndrome: A numerical investigation into obesity-related factors (UK-Canada doctoral exchange scheme: Globalink Research Placement)
- Kazakidi, Asimina (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2022
- Computational modelling of the right ventricle and pulmonary valve
- Kazakidi, Asimina (Principal Investigator)
- 07-Jan-2019 - 13-Jan-2019
- Identifying the key anatomical features that affect blood flow in the pulmonary arteries of congenital heart patients
- Boumpouli, Maria (Principal Investigator) Kazakidi, Asimina (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 28-Jan-2019
- Perfusion optimisation for design of vascular grafts used in the treatment of aortic disease
- Kazakidi, Asimina (Principal Investigator) Ritos, Konstantinos (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2022
More projects
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