Prof. Michael Ortiz is a Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and as a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at TUM-IAS.

TUM, UCLA, and Caltech have a collaborative effort currently under way, partly under the auspices of the Institute for Advanced Study. The chief objective is the development of a complete computational model of the human heart, the Advanced Cardiac Mechanics Emulator (ACME), which will enable detailed and high-fidelity predictions of cardiac function in both healthy and diseased individuals. ACME combines the most advanced biomechanical models to date of myocardial tissue, hemodynamics, and the electrophysiological response of the heart with the latest advances in high-performance and extreme computing.

Doctoral Candidate:
Andreas Nagler, Computational Mechanics

Postdoc:
Dr. Cristóbal Bertoglio, Computational Mechanics