This research project’s ambition is to develop and use computational biomechanics methods as tools for personalised medicine, mainly focusing on perfusion and (mass) transport processes in both organs (e.g. liver, kidney, brain, lungs...) and tumors (e.g. hepatocellular carcinoma, peritoneal carcinomatosis...). The major research areas will be cancer and minimally invasive procedures. The objectives will include:
(i) Development of planning tools for minimally invasive interventions (e.g. robot-assisted partial nephrectomies and neuro-interventional procedures);
(ii) Optimisation and personalisation of targeted drug delivery for cancer treatment (i.e. transarterial drug delivery for liver cancer,  advanced intraperitoneal chemotherapy methods for peritoneal carcinomatosis);
(iii) Unravelling the role of biomechanics in diverse other applications (e.g. lymphatics, liver pathologies, tracheomalacia etc.).