Marina Echeverría Ferrero

BSc. in Biomedical Engineering from Tecnun (Universidad de Navarra). San Sebastián, Spain, in 2017.
MSc. in Computational Biomedical Engineering. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain, in 2019.

In September 2019 I began my PhD in Mathematics and Statistics at University of the Basque Country. My PhD project concerns the computational modeling of Radiofrequency Cardiac Ablation (RFCA), a clinical procedure to treat cardiac arrhythmias. During RFCA, an electrical current delivered through a catheter generates localized heating in the vicinity of the tissue it contacts.
Under the supervision of prof. Dr. Marco Ellero at BCAM, I am currently investigating the coagulation kinetics using a particle-based approach, through sDPD simulations. Coagulation is relevant for RFCA, since a coagulum may form at the catheter tip during the heating process. Under the supervision of prof. Dr. Luca Gerardo Giorda from RICAM (in Linz, Austria), I have modeled the electrode-tissue interaction in a Finite Element framework.