Team

Alexander D. Kaiser is an applied mathematician and computational scientist and Instructor in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford. He leads a research team supported by his NIH K25 and American Heart Association awards. His research develops computational modeling methods to study congenital heart disease and its surgical treatment.

Karoline-Marie Bornemann is a postdoctoral scholar in Pediatrics (Cardiology). She earned her PhD at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2024. She studies fluid mechanics and pathophysiology of rare and severe congenital heart disease, currently focused on truncus arteriosus.

Camille Shantz is an MD student at Boston University on a research year at Stanford as a Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Fellow. She researches valve performance in supravalvular aortic stenosis and its surgical repairs.

Elena Sabdy Martinez is a PhD student at ICME, the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, co-mentored with Alison Marsden. She researches surgical planning for complex biventricular repair in patients with double outlet right ventricle.

Han Zhao was a postdoctoral scholar in Pediatrics (Cardiology) at Stanford, co-mentored with Alison Marsden, and recently moved to the University of Pennsylvania. He researches immersed methods for fluid-structure interaction.