Multiscale modelling
High performance computing
Cardiac electrophysiology
Molecular mechanisms of arrhythmias
Transmural heterogeneites
In 2000, I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Science (First Class Honours) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. During the first half of 2001, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, modelling water and heat transfer in the lungs. From 2001-2006, I was a graduate student at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. In 2003, I was awarded a Masters of Science (by examination), and in 2006, I successfully defended my PhD thesis, entitled "Multiscale computational models of transmural heterogeneities and ventricular arrhythmogenesis". Later that year, I moved to the University of Oxford to take up my current position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Biology. Briefly, my current research involves using high performance computing to investigate quantitative hypotheses regarding the integrative cellular and molecular mechanisms of cardiac electrical diseases, how they affect intact heterogeneous cardiac tissue, and the implications for potentially fatal arrhythmogenesis.
