Chiara Catalano graduated with highest honors in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Palermo. During her master’s degree, she completed an internship at ISMETT, where she gained access to patient data and conducted patient-specific computational analyses of transcatheter mitral valve replacement procedures.
Building on this work, her PhD research focuses on in silico modeling of transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Her doctoral fellowship is funded by the Horizon 2020 research project (No. 101017523) and centers on the numerical analysis of transcatheter heart valve procedures.
Chiara was also awarded an ISCRA grant, which provided access to Italian supercomputing resources. She is currently a research fellow (postdoctoral) at ISMETT. In addition, she completed a six-month research stay at the University of Bern, where she worked on the in vitro characterization of prosthetic heart valves
Finite-element (Abaqus), FSI (FlowVision)
Particle trackin velocimetry
in-vitro flow characterization