I am a final-year PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering. The aim of my project is to develop a strongly coupled, subject-specific FSI model capable of simulating the motion of aortic valve and its surrounding haemodynamics throughout a cardiac cycle. Model predictions will be compared with in vivo data.
I completed my undergraduate study in Mechanical Engineering at the Anhui University of Technology, where I gained basic mathematics, physics, and mechanics knowledge. One day I came across the interdisciplinary field of cardiovascular biomechanics and found my mechanical engineering background could provide a different perspective, so I continued my MEng in Biomechanics and Medical Engineering at Peking University, where I completed my research topic of left ventricular wall biomechanical analysis in Cardiovascular Mechanics and Interventional Cardiology Laboratory.
Biography
2020 - present
PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2017 - 2020
MEng in Biomechanics and Medical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, China
2013 – 2017
BEng in Machine Design, Manufacturing and Its Automation, School of Mechanical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, China
Research Interests
My research interests include numerical simulations to explain how fluid, structure, and other factors interact in the cardiovascular system, how these interactions eventually lead to cardiovascular disease, and how medical devices play a role in changing these interactions and ultimately treating the disease.
Project Title
"Fluid-structure interaction analysis of natural and bioprosthetic aortic valves"
Supervisor(s)
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Dr Saeed Mirsadraee
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, UK
Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Biomechanics, BioMechanical Engineering, 3ME, TU Delft
Publications
Yin, Z., Armour, C., Kandail, H., O'Regan, D.P., Bahrami, T., Mirsadraee, S., Pirola, S. and Xu, X.Y., 2024. Fluid–structure interaction analysis of a healthy aortic valve and its surrounding haemodynamics. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, p.e3865.
Yin, Z., Zhang, W., Zhao, D., Sulejmani, F., Feng, Y., Huo, Y., & Tan, W. 2020. Cardiac wall mechanics analysis in hypertension-induced heart failure rats with preserved ejection fraction. Journal of biomechanics, 98, 109428.
Awards and Funding
Fully funded PhD scholarship awarded by the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London.
Teaching Experience
Graduate teaching assistant in Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London: Reaction Design Project (Control Component)- 2nd Year Undergraduate (2022/23)
Graduate teaching assistant in Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London:
Matlab Tutorial- 1st Year Undergraduate (2021/22)
Graduate teaching assistant in College of Engineering, Peking University:
Biofluid Mechanics- Postgraduate (2018/19)
Contacts
OFFICE
1M17 ACEX, Department of Chemical Engineering, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ
OFFICE PHONE
+44 (0)207 594 2562
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Room 1M17, ACE Extension Building
Department of Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus
London, SW7 2AZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 594 2562