Members

Participants

Membership is open to researchers affiliated to either ERCIM-member institutes or non-ERCIM organisations.

For membership applications please contact the chairman (contact) of the Working Group.

ERCIM member institutes
Contacts	Contributions
Consiglio Nazionale delle Recerche (CNR)
Giuseppe Pontrelli IAC (Instituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo) - CNR Viale del Policlinico, 137 00161 Roma, Italy	mathematical modelling for fluid-wall interaction, blood flow in highly deformable (distensible, collapsible) vessels, computational algorithms and numerical simulation.
Andrea Ripoli Computational Biomechanics Lab Italian National Research Council Clinical Physiology Institute and Physics Department University of Pisa	multiphysics multiscale mathematical models (left ventricle, thoracic aorta, carotid) finite element code, parallel computing, grid computing, biomedical signal analysis. + MR, HCT and IVUS availability (cooperation of the Radiology, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Departments)
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG)
Martin Hofmann-Apitius Johannes Linden Anton Schueller Clemens Thole Klaus Wolf Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 Sankt Augustin	coupled models, development of coupling tools, computational algorithms, numerical simulation, adaptive multigrid techniques, algebraic multigrid, parallel computing.
Kay-Ingo Ahlers Ivo Haulsen Steffen Unger Fraunhofer Institut - Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik FIRST Kekuléstraße 7 12489 Berlin	modelling and simulation of complex systems, surgery simulator, interaction and visualisation technologies, data analysis, image processing, virtual reality
Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
Marc Thiriet REO team INRIA Rocquencourt B.P. 105 F-78153 Le Chesnay Cedex and Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL) UMR CNRS 7598 Université Pierre et Marie Curie BC 187 F-75252 Paris Cedex 05	mathematical modelling of biofluid flows,
Swiss Association for Research in Information Technology (SARIT)
Simone Deparis Alfio Quarteroni Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing (DMA) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Ecublens CH - 1015 Lausanne	mathematical modeling of blood and vascular tissue, computational algorithms, numerical simulation, multiscale coupling.
Gabor Szekely Medical Image Analysis and Visualization Group (BIWI) Computer Vision Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH-Zentrum Gloriastr. 35, CH-8092 Zurich Esra Neufeld Dominik Szczerba IT'IS ETH Zentrum Michael Oberle Schmid & Partner Engineering AG (SPAEG) Zeughausstrasse 43 CH - 8004 Zurich Vartan Kurtcuoglu Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies (ETH-LTNT)	surgical training simulators identification of pathological alterations in vessel wall (like calcifications) in volumetric radiological data fast modelling of elastomechanical soft tissue behaviour blood flow simulation computer graphics Health Support Systems

non-ERCIM organisations
Contacts	Contributions
Denis Doorly John Michael Graham Joaquim Peiro Spencer Sherwin Department of Aeronautics Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine UK - London SW7 2AZ	from image data to mesh generation, computational algorithms, numerical simulations.
Stephen Daniels Peter Edwards Wales Research and Diagnostic Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging Centre PETIC School of Medicine and School of Chemistry Cardiff University Cardiff CF10 3AT	Image acquisition PET/SPECT/CT, MRI, US
[mailto: middletonj2@cardiff.ac.uk John Middleton] Biomaterials/Biomechanics Research Centre Wales College of Medicine Cardiff Medicentre Heath Park Cardiff CF14 4UJ Wales, UK and Meditech	soft tissue simulation 3D reconstruction Biomechanics
Luca Formaggia Modellistica e Calcolo Scientifico (MOX) (Modeling and Scientific Computing) Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Brioschi" "La Nave" Building, VIth Floor Politecnico di Milano Piazza L. da Vinci 32 20133 MILANO	mathematical modeling of blood flows, computational algorithms, numerical simulation, mesh adaptivity, error estimates for FEM.
Uwe Janoske BA Mosbach Leiter Studiengang Virtual Engineering Berufsakademie Mosbach / University of Cooperative Education Lohrtalweg 10 D-74821 MOSBACH
Catalin Fetita Françoise Préteux Unité de Projets ARTEMIS Institut National des Telecommunications F-91011 Evry Cedex	image processing (airways) virtual endoscopy
Luc Soler IRCAD / EITS Hôpital Civil F-67091 Strasbourg Cedex	virtual reality, surgical training and treatment planning systems.
Nicolas Passat LSIIT, UMR 7005 CNRS/ULP (équipe MIV) ULP, Strasbourg 1
André Garon Département Génie Mécanique Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal C.P. 6079, Succursale Centre-ville Montréal, H3C 3A7, Canada	flow experiments, cardiac ventricle prosthesis, mathematical modeling of blood flows, stents.
Michel Delfour Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) Département de Mathématiques et de Statistiques Université de Montréal Case postale 6128 Montréal (Québec), H3C 3J7, Canada	shell and optimization, stents.
Yves Bourgault Département de mathématiques et de statistiques (DMS) Université d'Ottawa 585 av.King Edward, C.P.450, Succ.A Ottawa (Ont), K1N 6N5, Canada	modeling of particle flows, spiral waves.
André Fortin Département de mathématiques et de statistiques (DMS) Université Laval Québec, G1K-7P4, Canada	finite element modeling heat transfer, cryotherapy modeling mesh adaptation
Denis Laurendeau Département génie électrique et génie informatique Laboratoire de vision et systèmes numériques Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot Université Laval QUEBEC, Canada G1K 7P4T	SKALPEL-ICT : simulation kernel applied to the planning and evaluation of image guided cryotherapy, Contributions to the field of 3D modeling from range data and to the development of active stereovision platforms Environnement générique d'apprentissage visuel du mouvement pour un système intellignet MONNET - Monitoring of Extended Premises: Tracking Pedestrians Using a Network of Loosely Coupled Cameras
Suncica Canic Roland Glowinski Department of Mathematics University of Houston 4800 Calhoun Road Houston, TX 77204-3476	finite element modeling 1D blood flow modeling fluid-structure interaction
Tony W. H. Sheu Scientific Computing and Cardiovascular Simulation (SCCS) National Taiwan University 73 Chou-Shan Rd. Taipei, Taiwan 106 Republic of China	mathematical modeling of blood flows, hemodynamic studies in coronary artery with 3D stent, hemodynamic study in coronary artery-bypass vessel, microcirculation in liver cells, surgical planning tool for TACE , transfer phenomena in human meridian system.
Michel Bercovier MB web School of Computer Science and Engineering Hebrew University of Jerusalem Safra Campus -Givat Ram Jerusalem 91904, Israel	finite element method in fluid flows computer-aided geometry for design optimal control applied to CAGD distributed or highly parallel computing
Horace Ho-Shing Ip Raymond Wong Hau San AIMtech Centre of the Dpt of Computer Sciences City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Av. Kowloon, Hong Kong	Pattern Recognition Image Analysis & Visual Information Retrieval Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality Multimedia Document & Workflow Systems
Daniel Racoceanu (CNRS) Wee Kheng Leow (NUS) IPAL (Image Perception, Access & Language, UMI CNRS 2955) French-Singaporean International Joint Laboratory (CNRS, NUS, I2R ASTAR, UJF) School of Computing National University of Singapore Singapore 117590 I2R site Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR) 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01, Connexis, South Tour, Singapore 138632	Medical image quantification, segmentation and classification Medical Image retrieval
LOU Jing A*STAR - Institute of High Performance Computing	Multiphase flow and mass/heat transfer modelling Fluid-structure interaction Biofluid mechanics
Takami Yamaguchi Takuji Ishikawa Dpt. Bioengineering and Robotics Tohoku University 6-6-01, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan	Physiological flows
Sanjeev Kumar Department of Mathematics B.R. Ambedkar University IBS, Khandari Campus Agra 282002 India	mathematical modeling fuzzy mathematics