Dr Robyn May
Recent PhD graduate Robyn May developed cardiovascular digital twins of newborn babies as part of her doctoral research.
Key facts
Programme: PhD - Liggins Institute and Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Research topic: “Understanding cardiovascular remodelling related to preterm birth: A clinical and computational modelling study"
Supervisor: Professor Frank Bloomfield, Dr Soroush Safaei (ABI), Dr Finbar Argus (ABI), Dr Gonzalo Maso Talou (ABI) and adviser Professor Tom Gentles (FMHS)
Liggins Institute Research Fellow and recent PhD graduate Robyn May is improving outcomes for premature babies by combining her passions for paediatrics and bioengineering in her leading-edge research on newborn cardiovascular digital twins.
In collaboration with the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, her doctoral research focused on developing digital cardiovascular twins for newborns—physics-based computational models that simulate the heart and vascular systems of individual newborn babies.
If you want to know more about how human digital twins are used in perinatal research to help answer critical health questions, read Dr Robyn May's recent opinion piece for Newsroom, From science fiction to science fact.
To learn more about Robyn's innovative research and her journey from the wards of South Africa to academia in New Zealand, read our news story, From babies' bedsides to bioengineering.