Electro-Mechanical Modeling of Excitable Soft Tissues
Luciano Teresi
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
Università "Roma Tre"
Rome, Italy
Cardiac muscle exists in two forms: the contractile myocardium and specialized conducting cells that spread the wave of depolarization throughout the chambers of the heart. Action potentials are initiated in the sinoatrial (SA) node, which serve as the “pacemaker” of the heart. In this presentation, this is investigated thoroughly with different examples and simulated results of such.
Keynote speaker's biography:
Luciano Teresi is a member of the Department of Studies on Structures at the Università "Roma Tre", in Rome, Italy. He has also been an Assistant Professor at the University’s School of Engineering since 1998, and is an active member of the Italian Research Group in Mathematical Physics (GNFM) and of theItalian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI).
Dr. Teresi’s main research interests currently involve Biomechanics (growth and remodeling of living tissues, and electromechanical models for the heart), Continuum Physics (liquid crystals, and soft elasticity of nematic elastomers) and Solid-Fluid Interaction (moving grid techniques, and coupled problems in structural mechanics and sail design).