Dr.-Ing. cand. Eike Wülfers
Doctoral researcher (Computational Modelling)Research Interests:
- Computational and numerical modelling of cardiac electrophysiology
- Modelling of heterocellular coupling and substrate modifications in the heart
- Numerical methods for electrical field calculations
- Parallel computing
Brief CV:
Eike Moritz Wülfers studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). For his Bachelor’s thesis, he studied microstructural remodelling of ventricular myocytes after myocardial infarction at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT) at KIT and the Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI, University of Utah) (2011-2012). He went on to receive a Master’s degree from KIT after working on parallel computing and numerical methods for cardiac excitation propagation simulations (2016). Eike Moritz Wülfers joined the IEKM in Freiburg as a PhD student in the Computational Modelling section in 2016.
Selected Publications:
- Loewe A, Wülfers EM, Seemann G. Cardiac ischemia - insights from computational models. Herzschrittmacherther Elektrophysiol 2018/29:48-56
- Johnston CM, Rog-Zielinska EA, Wülfers EM [...] Kohl P, Schneider-Warme F. Optogenetic targeting of cardiac myocytes and non-myocytes: Tools, challenges and utility. Prog Biophys Mol Biol 2017/130:140- 149
- Hulsmans M, Clauss S [...] Wülfers EM, Seemann G [...] Kohl P [...] Nahrendorf M. Macrophages Facilitate Electrical Conduction in the Heart. Cell 2017/169:510-522
- Wülfers EM, Dössel O, Seemann G. Regularity of node distribution impacts conduction velocities in finite element simulations of the heart. Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC) 2016.
- Schwab BC, Seemann G, Lasher RA, Torres NS, Wülfers EM, Arp M, Carruth ED, Bridge JHB, Sachse FB. Quantitative Analysis of Cardiac Tissue Including Fibroblasts Using Three-Dimensional Confocal Microscopy and Image Reconstruction: Towards a Basis for Electrophysiological Modeling. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2013/32(5):862–872