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Alexandra Moura

Institutional Address

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Av. Rovisco Pais 1
1049-001 LISBOA

Phone: | Email: xiluva@gmail.com

Position

Invited Assistant Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Area

Mathematical Modeling in Biomedicine

Principal Area

Applied Mathematics

Other Area

Numerical Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Applications to Biomedicine

Qualifications

PhD in Mathematical Engineering (Applied Mathematics) at Politecnico di Milano, 2007. Thesis: The geometrical multiscale modeling of the cardiovascular system: coupling 3D FSI and 1D models.
5 year degree in Applied Mathematics and Computation, specialization in Numerical Analysis, at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2001.

Papers in International Journals

Bras-Rosario, L.; Nunes, C.; Moura, Alexandra; Rocha, I.; Pinto, F.; Sequeira, Adélia (2014) Influence of the baroreflex on the evolution of ventriculo arterial coupling . The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: 28(1), 681.3.

Gambaruto, A. M.; Janela, João; Moura, Alexandra; Sequeira, Adélia (2013) Shear-Thinning Effects of Hemodynamics in Patient-Specific Cerebral Aneurysms . Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering: 10(3), 649-665.

Ramalho, S.; Moura, Alexandra; Gambaruto, A. M.; Sequeira, Adélia (2012) Sensitivity to Outflow Boundary Conditions and Level of Geometry Description for a Cerebral Aneurysm . International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering: 28(6-7), 697-713.

Moura, Alexandra; Sequeira, Adélia (2012) Modeling and simulation of the human cardiovascular system . CIM Bulletin (International Center for Mathematics): 31, 27-34.

Gambaruto, A. M.; Janela, João; Moura, Alexandra; Sequeira, Adélia (2011) Sensitivity of Hemodynamics in a Patient Specific Cerebral Aneurysm to Vascular Geometry and Blood Rheology . Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering: 8(2), 409-423.

Janela, João; Moura, Alexandra; Sequeira, Adélia (2010) Absorbing Boundary Conditions for a 3D Non-Newtonian Fluid-Structure Interaction Model for Blood Flow in Arteries . International Journal of Engineering Science: 48(11), 1332-1349.

Janela, João; Moura, Alexandra; Sequeira, Adélia (2010) A 3D Non-Newtonian Fluid-Structure Interaction Model for Blood Flow in Arteries . Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics: 234(9), 2783-2791.

Gambaruto, A. M.; Moura, Alexandra; Sequeira, Adélia (2010) Topological Flow Structures and Stir Mixing for Steady Flow in a Peripheral Bypass Graft with Uncertainty . International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering: 26(7), 926-953.

Papers or Chapters in Edited Books

Ramalho, S.; Moura, Alexandra; Gambaruto, A. M.; Sequeira, Adélia (2013) Influence of blood rheology and outflow boundary conditions in numerical simulations of cerebral aneurysms . Mathematical Methods and Models in Biomedicine, Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in the Life Sciences, Springer, New York, 149-175.

Ramalho, S.; Moura, Alexandra; Gambaruto, A. M.; Sequeira, Adélia (2012) Importance of the choice of mathematical model and level of geometry description in computational hemodynamics of cerebral aneurysms . Mathematical Models and Methods in Biomedicine, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 151-178.

Sequeira, Adélia; Moura, Alexandra; Janela, João (2010) Towards a geometrical multiscale approach to non-Newtonian blood flow simulations . Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 295-309.

Papers in National Scientific Journals

Moura, Alexandra (2012) Modelos matemáticos, simulação numérica e realidade . Números, Cirurgias e Nos de Gravata: 10 anos de Seminário Diagonal no IST, J.P. Boavida, R.P. Carpentier, L. Cruz-Filipe, P.S. Goncalves, E. Grifo, D. Henriques, and A.R. Pires (eds.), IST Press, Lisboa.

Moura, Alexandra; Sequeira, Adélia (2011) A Matemática do Sistema Cardiovascular . Gazeta de Matemática: 164.

Awards

Winner of the UTL/Deloitte and UTL/CGD 2011 Young Researcher Award in the scientific field of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Probability and Statistics

Seminars

ESSIM 2012 - European Summer School in Industrial Mathematics and Modeling Week (2012-08-12) Dresden, Alemanha

ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Simulation and Modeling of Biological Flows (2011-09-21) Bruxelas, Bélgica

CMBE2011 - 2nd International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (2011-03-30) Washington, D.C.

MECOM 2010, XXXI Iberian-Latin-American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering (2010-11-15) Buenos Aires, Argentina

International Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems (2010-09-06) Foz do Arelho, Portugal

Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática 2010 (2010-07-08) Leiria, Portugal

ECCOMAS CFD 2010 (2010-06-14) Lisboa, Portugal

Seminar of Numerical Analysis, Optimization and Applications, CMUC - Center for Mathematics University of Coimbra (2009-10-14) Coimbra, Portugal

1st International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (2009-06-29) Swansea, Reino Unido

Topical Problems of Fluid Mechanics 2009 (2009-02-25) Praga, República Checa

Coloquium of the Faculty of Engineering of the Catholic University of Portugal (2008-12-18) Lisboa, Portugal

Jornadas de Outono de MAEG (2008-12-03) Lisboa, Portugal

Third International Workshop on Analysis and Numerical Approximation of Singular Problems (IWANASP08) (2008-09-10) Ericeira, Portugal

First Workshop IST / UT Austin in Computational Engineering: Fluid Dynamics (2008-07-10) Lisboa, Portugal

IV International Conference on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics and Applications (2008-06-26) Évora, Portugal

Seminar of Analysis, Lisbon, Portugal, CMA (Center of Applied Mathematics), Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, New University of Lisbon (2008-04-16) Lisboa, Portugal

The geometrical multiscale modelling in hemodynamics and hemorheology (2008-04-16) Lisboa, Portugal

International Conference on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (2007-05-21) Estoril, Portugal

Coupling between 3D and 1D uid-structure interaction models for blood ow (2006-10-25) Lisboa, Portugal

Modelling of Physiological Flows (MPF 2006) (2006-09-25) Bergamo, Itália

International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2006) (2006-08-22) Madrid, Espanha

5th World Conference in Biomechanics (WCB 2006) (2006-07-29) Munique, Alemanha

77th GAMM Annual Meeting (2006-03-27) Berlim, Alemanha

Modelling in Medicine and Biology VI (2005-09-07) Bolonha, Itália

Modelling of Physiological Flows (MPF 2005) (2005-03-31) Sesimbra, Portugal

Conferences

SIMBIO 2011 - ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Simulation and Modeling of Biological Flows Brussels, Belgium (Contributed Talk)

CMBE2011 - 2nd international conference on computational and mathematical biomedical engineering Washington D.C. (Contributed Talk)

1st Workshop IST/UT Austin in Computational Engineering: Fluid Dynamics Lisboa (Invited Speaker)

IV International Conference on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics and Applications Évora, Portugal (Invited Speaker)

ESSIM 2012 - European Summer School in Industrial Mathematics and Modeling Week Dresden, Germany (Invited Speaker)