Kartik Jain, Associate Professor of Biofluid Dynamics,
Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering,
University of Twente,
The Netherlands
E-mail: k.jain@utwente.nl
Computational Physiology Research at the University of Twente
\[\frac{\partial u_j}{\partial x_j} = 0\] Computational Phy(∅)siology research team is embedded within the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering at the University of Twente. We develop numerical methods and computational tools to understand physiological flows and processes.
I am an Associate Professor of Biofluid Dynamics at the University of Twente. I am interested in understanding the physiology and pathophysiology of several diseases through numerical simulations on large scale computational resources. After obtaining a bachelors of Control engineering in India, I worked as a software developer for some time in India. After that I moved to the RWTH Aachen University in Germany where I acquired my masters degree in mechanical engineering with a specialisation in Simulation Sciences. During my master studies I worked as a student assistant in the laboratory of Prof. Sabine Roller and completed my master thesis in the direction of thrombosis modeling using Lattice Boltzmann methods. Upon completion of my masters I moved with Prof. Roller to work as a researcher at the University of Siegen in Germany and obtained a doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) with summa cum laude under her supervision. During my PhD studies I collaborated closely with Prof. Kent-Andre Mardal and published several articles with him. My doctoral dissertation explored and characterized transition to turbulence in biofluid applications like blood flow in intracranial aneurysms and cerebrospinal fluid flow in the spinal canal. My work explored characteristics of transition to turbulence with steady, pulsatile and oscillatory flow in canonical stenosed pipes.
After completing my doctorate, I accepted an offer to work as a Postdoc at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Zürich, Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Vartan Kurtcuoglu. There my research focused on computational modeling of renal hemodynamics and renal hypoxia within the Swiss national center of competence in research NCCR Kidney.CH. After two years of postdoc, I returned to Germany to work as a senior scientist at the Institute for Computational Physics of the University of Stuttgart with Prof. Christian Holm. In Stuttgart my research focused on the modeling of bacterial dynamics and biofilm lifecycle in confined geometries within the DFG collaborative research center SFB1313.
Brief Vita
- 08-2025 -- Present: Associate Professor of Biofluid Dynamics, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- 09-2019 -- 07-2025: Assistant Professor of Biofluid Dynamics, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- 08-2018 -- 08-2019: Senior Scientist, Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- 08-2016 -- 07-2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- 02-2013 -- 07-2016: Research Scientist, University of Siegen, Germany