Mathias Peirlinck

Mathias Peirlinck is an Assistant Professor of BioMechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, the oldest and largest technical university in the Netherlands. Prior to starting his own lab at TU Delft, he received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Ghent University and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s department of Mechanical Engineering. His lab’s research focuses on the integration of multimodal experimental data, physics-based modeling, and machine learning techniques to understand, explore, and predict the multiscale behavior of the human heart, both in health and disease. Mathias received the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence in 2019, won the AIG Price for best quadrennial PhD at Ghent University’s Faculty of Engineering from 2018 till 2022, and received the prestigious Dutch Science Foundation Veni Talent Award for his research on data-driven and physics-based modeling of multiscale cardiac tissue behavior in 2023.

Within Holland Hybrid Heart, the Peirlinck Lab will support the design and optimization procedure of the HHH prototypes using multi-physics computational models that quantify and predict heart-device-circulation interactions under various activation and loading conditions.