Alison Marsden

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Alison Marsden
BornJune 9, 1976
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Princeton University
Stanford University
Scientific career
FieldsCardiovascular biomechanics
Doctoral advisor Parviz Moin
Website https://cbcl.stanford.edu/ https://simvascular.github.io/

Alison Lesley Marsden is an American bioengineer. She is an associate professor of pediatric cardiology, bioengineering, and (by courtesy) mechanical engineering at Stanford University. She is the daughter of Jerrold_E._Marsden

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Research

Marsden's research concerns the biomechanics of the cardiovascular system. It has included the development of accurate computer simulations of the Berlin Heart, an implantable artificial heart, with the aim of improving its design. [1]

Education and career

Marsden earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1998 from Princeton University. She did her graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, earning a master's degree in 2000 and completing her Ph.D. in 2005. [2]

After postdoctoral research in pediatric cardiology and bioengineering at Stanford, she taught at the University of California, San Diego from 2007 until 2015, when she returned to Stanford as a faculty member. [2]

Recognition

In 2018 Marsden became a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. [3] She also became a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, "for fundamental contributions to cardiovascular simulation methodology, clinical translation of novel surgical designs, leadership in open-source software and gender diversity". [4] In 2020 she was named a fellow of the American Physical Society "for the development of numerical methods for cardiovascular blood flow simulation and their application to cardiovascular surgery and congenital heart disease". [5]

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References

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