Supervision

Supervisor

Desmond Kabus (Postdoc)

Applying machine learning and other computational methods, Desmond is currently developing data-driven individualised human heart models using high-resolution recordings of human atrial tissue cultures.

Co-supervisor

Debora Hoogendijk (Bachelor student)

Project title: Laws for mutual spiral wave attraction in excitable media

Alumni

Co-promotor

Alexander Teplenin (PhD student)

Alexander (Sasha) Teplenin obtained his MSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in Russia. He has specialized in cardiac tissue engineering and studying excitation waves in artificial cardiac constructs. During his PhD training he will utilize various optogenetic tools for investigating new strategies to study and treat cardiac arrhythmias.

PhD thesis: Application of in-silico and in-vitro optogenetic tools to cardiac arrhythmia research (link to thesis)

2019 - 2024

Student Supervisor

Christiana Kosta (Bachelor student)
Project title: Adipose tissue and atrial fibrillation: Deep dive into adipocytes and supraventricular chaos

2024 - 2025

Alexandra Kreft (Master student)
Project title: A Comparative Exploration of hiPSCs and Isolated Cardiomyocytes for In Vitro Cell Model Development

2023 - 2024

Sissi Zhang (Bachelor student)
Project title: The influence of sex hormones on arrhythmogenicity

2023 - 2024

Boris Trines & Lizaly Wildenbeest (Highschool students)
Project title: Total eclipse of the heart: Controle van de elektrische activiteit van hartspiercellen met behulp van licht-geactiveerde K+ kanalen 

2023