Dr Alastruey is a BHF research fellow working on the project 'Modelling pulse wave propagation in arteries and veins: Application to cardiovascular disease and its treatment'. He is developing novel models of wave propagation in blood vessels and methods to infer physical properties of the system that are clinically relevant from data that can be measured in the clinic. These models and methods are tested using in vivo pressure, flow and anatomical data, and are applied to address clinically relevant hypotheses.

Dr Alastruey graduated in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and obtained a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College under the guidance of Emeritus Prof. Kim Parker, Dr Joaquim Peiro, Prof. Spencer Sherwin, and the EU Research Training Network Haemodel. His thesis focused on the development, validation and application of a nonlinear one-dimensional model of pulse wave propagation in systemic arteries. Before joining the Department of Bioengineering as a research fellow in 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research on computational flow modelling in the cardiovascular system and the nasal cavity at the Biomedical Flows group, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College. In 2011, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering, King's College London.

A description of Dr Alastruey's research can be found here. A complete list of Dr Alastruey's publications with downloadable PDF papers can be found here.