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Gernot Plank is Professor of Computational Cardiology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. He received an M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2000, both from the Technical University of Graz, Austria. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Technical University of Valencia, Spain (2000-2002), at the University of Calgary, Canada (2003) in the lab of Profs. Leon and Vigmond and, as a Marie Curie Fellow, he held a Visiting Faculty position at the Johns Hopkins University, USA (2006-2008) in the Trayanova lab. In 2008 he became Academic Fellow at the Oxford e-Research Centre and the Oxford Computing Laboratory at the University of Oxford, U.K before being appointed as Associate Professor in 2011 at the Medical University of Graz. Since 2018 he is Professor of Computational Cardiology and head of the Computational Cardiology Laboratory.

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Helmut received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Experimental Physics from the University of Graz, Austria, in 1990 and 1996, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor of Medical Physics and Biophysics at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. He works in the field of quantitative image and time series analyses. His research interests include fractals, nonlinear methods, and quantitative methods in order to analyse digital images of biological objects and time series. Additionally, he is interested in measurements of subcutaneous fat layers and ecological studies on the development of forests.

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Robert Arnold is Senior Lecturer at the Medical University of Graz since 2014. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Graz University of Technology, Austria in 2009 and a Ph.D. degree in Cardiovascular Research from Medical University of Graz, Austria in 2013. He was Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany in 2014. He built up expertise in intra- and extracellular potential measurements at cell, tissue and whole organ (Langendorff) level.

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Christoph Augustin is Assistant Professor in Computational Cardiovascular Mechanics at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in mathematics and biomechanics from Graz University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Olaf Steinbach and Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel.
He has been Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Biophysics at the Medical University of Graz, Austria in the lab of Prof. Gernot Plank and as Marie Curie Fellow in the computational fluid mechanics lab of Prof. Shawn Shadden at Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley.
His main research interests are multi-physics problems, in particular the electro-mechano-fluidic modeling of the heart, and their numerical simulation using high-performance and massively parallel computing.

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Federica Caforio obtained her bachelor's degree in Mathematics at the University of Bari (Italy) and her master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Trento (Italy). She did an internship at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) in Berlin (Germany) for her master thesis, that was focused on inverse methods for one-dimensional blood-flow modeling, under the supervision of Alfonso Caiazzo and Eleuterio F. Toro. She holds a Phd in Applied mathematics from the Paris-Saclay University (France). Her Phd was held in the M3disim research team, that is a joint team between the research centre Inria and École polytechnique, under the supervision of Dominique Chapelle and Sébastien Imperiale. Her PhD focused on the mathematical analysis and the numerical simulation of elastic wave propagation in soft tissues, with application to cardiac ultrasound elastography. Her current focus lies in the coupling of a three-dimensional code for heart biomechanics with one-dimensional solvers for the human circulation, with application to Pulmonary Hypertension.

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Elias Karabelas received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and his Master's degree in Industrial Mathematics at Graz University of Technology (Austria). He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2015 from Graz University of Technology under the supervison of Prof Olaf Steinbach, Prof Ulrich Langer, and Prof Gernot Plank. During his PhD he was member of the SFB "Mathematical Optimization and Application in Medical Science" (MOBIS). Elias Karabelas is a member of the CCL since 2015. Currently, Elias Karabelas is a visiting Research Associate in the group of Steve Niederer at King's College London. His main research interests are computational fluid dynamics on moving/non-moving domains with particular focus on hemodynamics, non-linear solid dynamics in the context of electromechanics of the human heart, and the simulation of those problems using high performance computing.

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Matthias Gsell received his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and his Master's degree in Industrial Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology (Austria). He was a member of the International Research Training Group IGDK, which is a joint project of four Universities located in Graz (Austria) and Munich (Germany). During this time he had several research stays at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) in the group of Prof. Dr. Barbara Wohlmuth. In 2017 he received his PhD in Industrial Mathematics at the Graz University of Technology (Austria) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Olaf Steinbach. Since May 2016, he is a member of the Computational Cardiology Laboratory, with focus on the electromechanics of the heart and the personalization of the underlying models.

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Aurel Neic was a member of the CCL from 2014 to 2019. He has received a PhD in Mathematics, under the supervision of Prof. Gundolf Haase , from the University of Graz in 2015. He has a background in High Performance Computing and Iterative Solver Methods, but his expertise also includes GPU computing, parallelization techniques, software architecture design and mesh generation techniques. Currently, he is the CEO and co-founder of NumeriCor GmbH.

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Justyna holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany where she focused on Plastics and Medical Engineering. She spent the last year of her studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand where she was introduced to soft tissue mechanics. There she also worked on her Master Thesis in the Heart Mechanics group under supervision of Prof. Martyn Nash and Dr. Vicky Wang. Her Thesis dealt with the development of a structure-based constitutive modeling framework for heart failure mechanics. After completing her studies Justyna started her PhD in Biomechanics in January 2014 at the Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria, under the direction of Prof. Gerhard A. Holzapfel. Her work focused on the experimental and computational analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysms. In November 2018 Justyna joined the Computational Cardiology Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She works on the establishment of a growth and remodeling framework to capture the heart's response to pressure overload.

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Toni is a Senior Scientist at the Medical University of Graz. He received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Technology Graz, Austria, in 2003 and a Ph.D degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2008 at the same University. Profs Pfurtscheller and Müller-Putz supervised his master thesis dealing with biosignal processing and real-time analysis in an industrial application. During his PhD (2003-2008), guided by Prof. Gernot Plank, Toni build up expertise in image based FE mesh generation, parametrization methods and modelling of the specialized cardiac conduction system. He held a visiting scholar position at Johns Hopkins University, USA (2006-2007) in Prof. Trayanova's Lab. In 2010 Toni joined the Computational Cardiology Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow and accepted a Senior Scientist position in 2014 at the Medical University of Graz. He currently focuses on patient-specific models being generated from high resolution imaging data which are used to simulate patient physiology, pathophysiology and response to medical treatment.

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Karli Gillette received dual undergraduate degrees in Applied Mathematics and Bioengineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah in May 2015. She received a Master's degree in December 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Rob MacLeod at the SCI Institute SCI Institute focusing on the correction and processing of experimentally-recorded canine signals measured using an epericardial sock for use in algorithm validation of implantable cardio defibrillators. Within her PhD, Karli is currently focusing on the automation and functionalization of cardiac models of electrophysiology for patient-specific utilization in clinics.

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Laura Marx obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Technology Graz, where she specialized in the field of experimental cardiovascular biomechanics. For her master thesis she worked in the Laboratory of Prof. Gerhard A. Holzapfel at the Institute of Biomechanics focusing on experimental as well as computational estimation of biaxial properties of abdominal aortic tissue layers. She commenced her PhD in the Computational Cardiology Research Laboratory of Gernot Plank in 2017 working on an integrated mechano-fluidic model of cardiac function and conceiving data assimilation techniques for personalization based on rich multimodal clinical imaging datasets. Laura’s current work concerns developing a robust and automated procedure for parameterizing left ventricular afterload as represented by the three and four-element Windkessel model of the arterial system.

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Jana Fuchsberger received her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics from the University of Graz, Austria, where she specialized in Theoretical and Computational Physics. For her Master Thesis she worked in the group of Prof. Peter Puschnig where she focused on structural and electronic properties of the tetracene/Ag(110) and tetracene/Cu(110) interfaces. In 2017, Jana started her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Gundolf Haase on high performance computing methods for hemodynamics. Her current research interests are computational fluid dynamics simulations of moving obstacles in viscous flows using fictitious domain models with particular focus on the simulation of heart valve movement.

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