Dr. Jeroen Stinstra - Research Associate

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Background

Dr. Stinstra obtained his PhD from Twente University, Enschede, the Netherlands. Here he was involved in measuring fetal magnetocardiograms (recordings of the magnetic signal generated by fetal heart). During the period in Twente, he worked on modeling bioelectromagnetic fields, the signal processing of the fetal magnetocardiograms and looked into the applicability of fetal magnetocardiography as a medical tool.

Current Responsibilities

Dr. Stinstra is current involved with two research projects at the SCI Institute:

(1) Dr. Stinstra is helping the Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing with its technical management. This center has as the goal to provide effective software solutions for biomedical researchers. Currently most of the work done in the center is focussed at segmentation of data, building meshes out of these datasets, and simulating biological processes. Dr. Stinstra is involved with helping to translate the science involved in these field into actual software solutions. He is involved with the actual code writing in the center as well as helping collaborators of the center with their science and helping them to translate their problems into concepts that can be implemented into software.

(2) Dr. Stinstra is also involved in the multiscale cardiac modeling project, that is being carried out together with Duke University. In this project he is developing methods to simulate the propagation of action potentials at a cellular level, using huge meshes that represent the layout of cardiac tissue. His main interest in this project is to unlock the role that the extracellular space distribution plays in the conduction of action potentials. His main contribution to this project is writing the software that allows to run these kind of simulations on large multi processor machines.

Research Interests

The bioelectromagnetic research field is becoming more and more multidisciplinary. In order to progress and tackle these kind complex problems input is needed from a still increasing number of fields. And one of the things I like to obtain is a good overview on all the different aspects in order to be able to really pinpoint the weaknesses of the current models and methods. Luckily my interest is not only limited to physics, I am also intrigued by the beauty of mathematics and wonderful world of the functioning of the human being.