Koen Reesink

PhD
E-mail: k.reesink@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Phone: +31 43 3881665, +31 43 3881659
Birthdate: 19-05-1976
Room: UNS50, H3.360
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Experience

Personal statement:

My research and education focus is on cardiovascular structure and function.

Specific topics include arterial wall biomechanics and adaptation, and ventricular-vascular interaction.

My approach is to merge the disciplines and tools of engineering and clinical sciences to develop improved assessment methods to better understand degenerative and adaptive processes.

Research Topics:

  • Non-invasive assessment of dynamic vascular properties in diabetes.
  • Ventricular-vascular interaction in hypertension and diastolic heart failure.
  • Integrated methods to characterize vascular structure-function relationships.

 

Examples of future graduate student projects:

A processing pipeline to estimate the force-length relation of a fiber network - effect of structural damage

Consitutive model extension to account for smooth muscle tone - how to modulate vessel stiffness?

Establishing the reliability of axial stretch setting in biaxial mechanical testing of mouse arteries - how precise do we need to be?

Effect of the cold pressor test on carotid artery distensibility - can we learn more from modulated vessel stiffness?

Extraction of cardiac timing intervals from carotid distension waveforms - a window on the heart

Changes in left ventricular relaxation due to an acute decrease in arterial compliance - data from pigs

 

Education:

MSc in Electrical Engineering, PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Expertise:

Vascular Structure & Function, Hemodynamics, Ultrasound, Signal Processing, Control Systems Theory, Biomedical Instrumentation, Electronics

Position

Organisations:
BioMedical Engineering (BME) (Assistant professor)
Research:
Constitutive and system characteristics of large arteries (Research Coordinator)
Cardiovascular System Dynamics (Academic Staff)
Working days:
Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri, Wednesdays: out of house.