Adjunct Associate Professor Barry Doyle
Research Profile
The focus of Barry’s research is the use of computational and experimental techniques to further our understanding of vascular physiology and disease. This includes research into aortic aneurysms and the development of new predictive tools to determine aneurysm rupture risk through computational biomechanics.
Computational and experimental methods are applied to many different forms of cardiovascular health and disease, using cutting-edge engineering techniques to better understand vascular physiology and treat disease.
A global disease requires a global network of colleagues.
Therefore, this work is done alongside clinicians, biologists, medical physicists and other engineers where the aim is to further understand cardiovascular disease development to develop new tools to treat disease. Projects range from investigating the haemodynamics within the vasculature of healthy mouse placenta, to the development of thrombus in huge aortic aneurysms.
A major aspect of Barry's research is patient-specific modelling, primarily the application of fluid and solid computational mechanics to simulate 3D patient-specific blood flow and stresses in vivo. He is also active in 3D bioprinting with a view to one day printing living medical devices for implantation.