Croatian Science Foundation - Research Project
BioChemoMechanical Modeling of Aneurysmal Growth
Funding Period 10/2015 - 09/2019

Project leader:
Dr.sc. Igor Karšaj, Associate Professor
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
University of Zagreb
Ivana Lučića 5
HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone: ++385 1 61 68 125
Fax: ++385 1 61 68 187
e-mail: igor.karsaj@fsb.hr

Igor Karšaj had invited talk LEAD Project Workshop on Mechanics, Modeling and Simulation of Aortic Dissection , October 9 -11 2019, Riegersburg, Austria.

Josip Živić was attending 15th SHORT COURSE ON COMPUTATIONAL PLASTICITY , September 2 - 3 2019, Barcelona, Spain.

Josip Živić participated on COMPLAS 2019: XV International Conference on Computational Plasticity , September 3 - 5 2019, Barcelona, Spain. Presentation

Nino Horvat participated on 16th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and the 4th Conference on Imaging and Visualization , August 14 - 16 2019, New York, USA. Presentation

Igor Karšaj, Marija Smoljkić, Nino Horvat, Josip Živić and Lana Virag participated on 9. Susret Hrvatskog društva za mehaniku , July 11-12 2019, Zagreb, Croatia. Presentation 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 3

Nino Horvat and Josip Živić participated on 4th FAMENA PhD Workshop , June 28th 2019, Zagreb, Croatia.

Igor Karšaj, Marija Smoljkić and Lana Virag participated on Fourth Workshop on Soft Tissue Modelling , June 5 - 7 2019, Glasgow, UK. Presentation 1 Presentation 2 Presentation 3

Nino Horvat participated on 9th International Congress of the Croatian Society of Mechanics , September 18 - 22 2018, Split, Croatia. Presentation

Nino Horvat was attending summer school Biomechanics, from Protein to Tissue to Organ: Modeling and Computation , at TU Graz, Austria, 3 - 7 September 2018.

Master thesis defense of Josip Živić on July 13, 2018.

Master thesis defense of Toni Škugor on July 13, 2018.

Marija Smoljkić and Nino Horvat participated on 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference , July 2 - 6 2018, Bologna, Italy. Presentation 1 and Presentation 2

Lana Virag and Igor Karšaj participated on 8th World Congress of Biomechanics , July 8 - 12 2018, Dublin, Ireland. Poster 1 and Poster 2

Nino Horvat successfully defended Ph.D. Thesis topic named "Biochemomechanical Model of Aneurysm Growth", Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, 16th February 2018

Igor Karšaj participated on COMPLAS 2017, September 5-7 2017, Barcelona, Spain. Presentation

Research visit (Lana Virag) to Yale University, USA , August 27 - September 17 2017. Presentation

Lana Virag and Nino Horvat were attending summer school 23rd CISM-IUTAM International Summer School on "Growth and Remodeling in Soft Biological Tissue , at CISM, Udine, Italy, June 12-16 2017.

Lana Virag and Nino Horvat participated on 8th Annual Meeting of Croatian Society of Mechanics, July 7-8 2017, Osijek, Croatia. Presentation 1 and Presentation 2

Nino Horvat participated on 3rd FAMENA PhD Workshop , 30th June 2017, Zagreb, Croatia. Presentation

Igor Karšaj was invited speaker at 6th Colloquium of Croatian Science Academy and Croatian Science Foundation, abstract (in Croatian), Zagreb, June 8th 2017.

Lana Virag participated on Third Workshop on Soft Tissue Modelling , 7th June 2017 - Friday 9th of June 2017 , Glasgow, UK. Presentation

Igor Karšaj promoted as an associate member of Croatian Academy of Engineering, Zagreb, May 15, 2017.

Research visit (Igor Karšaj) to TU Munich, Institute for Computational Mechanics, Germany , May 15 - May 18 2017.

Research visit (Nino Horvat) to Michigan State University, College of Engineering, USA , April 12 - May 2 2017. Presentation

Nino Horvat and Igor Karšaj participated on 5th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering , April 10-12 2017, Pittsburgh, USA. Presentation Proceedings Proceedings

Bachelor thesis defense of Adriana čorić on March 2, 2017. Presentation

PhD defense of Lana Virag "NUMERICAL MODELING OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM EXPANSION", Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, February 10 2017 . Presentation

Research visit (Igor Karšaj) to Institute of Biomechanics, TU Graz, Austria , 17 - 18 September 2016.

Research visit (Nino Horvat) to Michigan State University, College of Engineering, USA , 5 - 28 September 2016.

Research visit (Nino Horvat and Lana Virag) to Tongji University, The Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Nano Science School of Medicine, 21 - 31 August 2016.

Nino Horvat participated on ESB 2016 Congress , 10 - 13 July 2016, Lyon, France. Poster

Lana Virag, Nino Horvat and Igor Karšaj participated on 7th Annual Meeting of Croatian Society of Mechanics, 16 - 17 June 2016, Split, Croatia. Joint presentation

Lana Virag and Nino Horvat were attending summer school Biomechanics of Soft Tissues: Multiscale Modeling, Simulation and Applications , at TU Graz, Austria, 4 - 8 July 2016.

Lana Virag and Igor Karšaj participated on ECCOMAS 2016 Congress , 5 - 10 June 2016, Crete Island, Greece. Presentation

Simon Ferlin (graduate student at FSB) received Rector Award, Zagreb, June 17th 2016. Mentor was Igor Karšaj.

Igor Karšaj granted project from Croatian Science Foundation on a call "Young Researchers' Career Development Project – Training of New Doctoral Students", Zagreb March 24th, 2016.

Lana Virag received " Annual Award " of Society of University Teachers and Other Scientists of Zagreb for young researchers and artists in 2015, 26th February 2016. Photos

Master thesis defense of Nino Horvat on December 4, 2015.

Lana Virag successfully defended Ph.D. Thesis topic named "NUMERICAL MODELING OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM EXPANSION", Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, 23rd November 2015

Introductory Lecture to Croatian Science Foundation IP-2014-09-7382 "BioChemoMechanical Modeling of Aneurysmal Growth", Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, 28th October 2015