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Apr 2026: NCRG meeting

Caroline was delighted to present at the Northern Cardiovascular Research group meeting at the University of Hull. 

Mar 2026: Conflict Wound DT

We organised a workshop to define a roadmap for digital twins in combat wound healing. Thanks to DSTL for funding!

Mar 2026: OpenCARP workshop

Albert, Caroline, Cynthia, Miao, Aidan and Carlos enjoyed learning about the latest features in OpenCARP software at LIRYC, Bordeaux!  

Feb 2026: TAVI review

Congratulations to Dr Elisa Rauseo and Dr Laura Bevis for their recent paper: Understanding the mechanisms of TAVI durability through computational modelling: a multidisciplinary review.

Jan 2026: EDITH roadmap

The EDITH policy brief and roadmap have been published! Check them out!

Dec 2025: Lab dinner

Grateful for the wonderful PCM Lab.

Nov 2025: IoP workshop

Balvinder Dhillon presented her work on
“openCARP-PINNs: Towards Faster Prediction of Cardiac Signal Propagation” at the Institute of Physics.

Nov 2025: Maastricht

Caroline was honoured to attend the PhD defense of Victor Goncalves Marques at the University of Maastricht. Victor gave an incredible presentation on his PhD research, congratulations!

Oct 2025: IEEE talk

Thought-provoking discussions at
the IEEE UK and Ireland Section panel, “Twinned Realities: Shaping Our World with Digital Models”.

Sept 2025: Fickle Heart

We attended Fickle Heart workshop at the University of Sheffield, and learnt lots about uncertainty quantification in cardiac and cardiovascular modelling and simulation. Caroline presented our latest research on atrial digital twins.

Sept 2025: CinC

Felix, Cynthia, Laura, Cat and Semhar presented their research at Computing in Cardiology conference in beautiful Sao Paulo.

Sept 2025: MICCAI

Congratulations to Semhar for presenting her bi-atrial statistical shape atlas work at STACOM workshop in South Korea!

Sept 2025: BSCR

We enjoyed British Society for Cardiovascular Research meeting, which was held at QMUL. Caroline chaired a session.

Aug 2025: ESC

Semhar, Felix and Caroline presented their latest research in arrhythmia digital twins at ESC in Madrid.

May 2025: Oslo

Caroline enjoyed visiting Oslo and Simula research institute to examine the PhD of Lena Myklebust – congrats Lena on a brilliant thesis.

May 2025: PhD award

Congratulations to Abbas Khan on successfully passing his PhD viva, subject to minor corrections: Novel Methods for Deep Learning-Based Cardiac Image Segmentation.

May 2025: Archer2 award

Congratulations to Dr Laura Bevis on winning best poster prize at the Archer2 Celebration of Science. Check out Laura’s poster!

April 2025: London marathon

Cat inspired us by running the London marathon, raising over £2000 for Heart Research UK. You can find out more about her story and motivation here.

April 2025: HRS

Caroline & Alexander had a wonderful time presenting the lab’s work at HRS conference in San Diego!

April 2025: New paper alert

Check out our new publication on synthetic fibrosis distributions for data augmentation in predicting atrial fibrillation ablation outcomes!

Mar 2025: Leeds talk

Thank you to Dr Mike Colman and his research group for inviting Caroline to Leeds to give a seminar and to exchange research ideas!

Mar 2025: ILF forum

Kiane presented her poster at the Industrial Liaison Forum. We are grateful to the brilliant Queen Mary Centre for Undergraduate Research (QMCUR) for supporting her research.

Jan 2025: Use case for EDITH

Our cardiovascular modelling pipeline atrialmtk featured as a use case for the Ecosystem for Digital Twins in Healthcare initiative!

Nov 2024: Global Undergraduate Awards

Congratulations to Balvinder who won the Global Award for Engineering at the Global Undergraduate Awards!

Nov 2024: RSM Digital Twins

Elisa & Caroline chaired and presented during an exciting workshop on the ethics and clinical uses of digital twins at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Sept 2024: Economist feature

We were delighted to see our research including our work with the EDITH initiative feature in The Economist.

Illustration: Travis Constantine

Sept 2024: BioMedEng & QM

We were incredibly excited to host BioMedEng conference at Queen Mary! Check out a video about the conference!

Sept 2024: ESC

Semhar, Elisa, Ovais and Felix presented at ESC congress in London!

Sept 2024: VPH

Ovais presented a poster on electro-optic flow virtual patient populations at VPH conference in Stuttgart.

Sept 2024: Cardiac Physiome

Laura presented her work on the EDITH project at Cardiac Physiome meeting in Freiburg, Germany.

Sept 2024: CinC

Laura presented during a special session on Atrial Fibrillation in CinC, Karlsruhe.

Aug 2024: HDRUK Internship

Semhar enjoyed her summer internship in AI & informatics at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, as part of the Health Data Research Internship Programme! 

Jul 2024: Summer School

Ovais, Semhar and Gonzalo learnt lots at the CISM-EUROMECH summer school in Udine. Thanks to the organisers!

Jul 2024: EDITH

Laura, Elisa and Caroline attended an EDITH  meeting in Amsterdam to brainstorm for a roadmap on digital twins in healthcare. Laura presented on our pipeline for building atrial digital twins within EDITH

Jul 2024: Summer School

Saveri and Lucas attended an insightful Physics Informed Neural Networks summer school in Stockholm! 

June 2024: Newton workshop

Many lab members attended a workshop at the Newton Institute in Cambridge: Fickle Heart: The intersection of UQ, AI and Digital Twins

June 2024: Paper


We published a review paper on personalised cardiac modelling using the electroanatomic mapping data. Congrats to Ovais! 

June 2024: CMBE

Semhar gave a brilliant talk on patient-specific anti-arrhythmic drug selection at CMBE in Virginia. 

June 2024: ECCOMAS

Cat gave an excellent talk on calibrating atrial models at ECCOMAS 2024 in Lisbon. 

June 2024: Atrial Signals

Alexander was delighted to present and learn about the latest AF research at Atrial Signals in Maastricht . 

June 2024: MIDL

Alexander presented his paper on predicting AF treatment outcomes at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning conference in Paris.

May 2024: HRS

Semhar, Cat, Alexander, Mahmoud and Ovais had an amazing time at Heart Rhythm Society in Boston with travel awards, posters and a talk!

May 2024: QM Research and Innovation Awards

Caroline was delighted to be a runner-up for the Vice Principle’s Award for Research Excellence.

April 2024: EHRA

Cat presented her poster on how to calibrate atrial models at EHRA in Berlin!

Mar 2024: Archer2

Carlos presented at the Archer2 Celebration of Science conference in Edinburgh. We are incredibly grateful to Archer2 HPC!

Mar 2024: ILF

Lucas and Saveri presented their intercalated research on PINN at the QM Industrial Liaison Forum.

Jan 2024: EDITH

Laura, Elisa and Caroline led a breakout session on clinical engagement at EDITH in Paris.

Dec 2023: Atrial pipeline

We delighted to release our pipeline for making atrial models at scale! Published in Interface Focus, and available on our lab github.

Nov 2023: Guardian Article

“How digital twins may enable personalised health treatment”, we featured in the Guardian!

Nov 2023: Naked Scientists podcast!

Caroline was very excited to appear on Naked Scientists latest podcast talking about digital twins in healthcare!

Nov 2023: Royal Society of Medicine talk

We discussed the future of digital twins in healthcare at the RSM, London: Digital twins: Tailoring medicine in silico

Nov 2023: ECGi Summit

Caroline and Clara were excited to attend the ECGi Summit in Valencia.

Oct 2023: HRC

Semhar, Cat, Caroline, Ovais, Carlos and Mahmoud gave presentations at Heart Rhythm Congress in Birmingham.

Oct 2023: Poster Prize

Congratulations to Semhar Misghina who won a best poster award at Computing in Cardiology!

Oct 2023: CinC

Cat, Semhar, Alexander, Mahmoud and Ovais presented their research at Computing in Cardiology in Atlanta!

Sept 2023: BioMedEng!

Carlos Lopez Barrera, Semhar Misghina and Alexander Zolotarev attended and presented at BioMedEng in Swansea.

Sept 2023: iMechE Prize

Congratulations to Semhar Misghina who was awarded first runner-up Vicon Best Oral Bioengineering Presentation at IMechE Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards.

Sept 2023: PhD Secondment

Clara Herrero Martín is undertaking a three-month PhD secondment with us from COR Group, Valencia.

Exciting research on: generating cardiac digital twins based on noninvasive cardiac mapping!

July 2023: Digital Health Workshop

We hosted a Multi-scale & Multi-modality Digital Health Collaboration Workshop, organised with UCL and ICL, and funded by The Alan Turing Institute. Thanks to all the contributors for a wonderful event!

Jul 2023: Research Visitor

More exciting collaborations with Dr Gonzalo R. Ríos Muñoz visiting our lab for two months from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

May 2023: Research Visitor

We’re delighted that Dr Dhani Dharmaprani is visiting our lab for three months from University of Flinders.

May 2023: Poster presentation

Cat presented her PhD research at the OpenCARP user meeting.

May 2023: HRS Poster

Caroline presented a poster at Heart Rhythm Society conference on a large virtual patient trial of biatrial substrate ablation.

April 2023: Impact

We were excited to feature in EETimes Europe!

Mar/ Apr 2023: EHRA & GRC

EHRA conference in Barcelona!

Gordon Conference in Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms: Investigating Model Reproducibility for Arrhythmia Simulations from Uncertain Clinical Measurements

Feb 2023: Night of Sci & Eng

We presented our research at a Night of Science and Engineering!

Dec 2022: Impact

Our research featured as a case study in a VPH and Avicenna Alliance white paper on the role of artificial intelligence within in silico medicine.

Nov 2022: EDITH

Caroline enjoyed meeting EDITH-CSA consortium members at the first meeting for the European Virtual Human Twin in Healthcare project in Leuven. Find out more about digital twins and our involvement in the project here.

June 2022: UKRI FLF

Caroline was incredibly excited and grateful to be awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining the team, post-doc & PhD adverts soon!