Bio
Marina Strocchi received a bachelor's Degree in Mathematics at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a master degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Trento, Italy. For her master thesis, she worked with models for the simulation of arterial blood flow. She also received a Master of Research in Imaging Science at King's College London.
During her PhD at King's College London in 2017, Marina has been working with three-dimensional models for cardiac electrical activation and mechanical contraction. The aim of her PhD is to develop a framework that simulates physiological motion of atria and ventricles together with pressure-volume atrial and ventricular dynamics. This framework was then be applied to a virtual cohort of heart failure models to investigate how pressure dynamics in the major arteries change in response to cardiac resynchronization therapy. After the completion of her PhD in 2021, she continued in CEMRG for a postdoctoral position funded by the British Heart Foundation.
Marina has been recently awarded an NIHR BRC fellowship partly funded by the British Heart Foundation to investigate the effect of diabetes on the heart using multi-scale computational models.