Dr. Steven Niederer completed his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science at the University of Auckland in 2003 and his DPhil in Computer Science on modeling the rat heart at the University of Oxford in 2008. From 2010 to 2023, he led the Cardiac Electro-Mechanics Research Group at King’s College London, focusing on accelerating and translating patient-specific heart modeling into clinical applications. In 2023, Dr. Niederer moved to Imperial College London as Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the National Heart and Lung Institute and became Co-Director for the Digital Twin Turing Research and Innovation Cluster at the Alan Turing Institute. His current work emphasizes reducing barriers to digital twin technology, developing virtual patient cohorts for in-silico trials, mapping organ-scale function through to cellular and molecular physiology, and using computational models to personalize and guide therapies.
