Seraina Dual

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Dr. Seraina Dual is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Biomedical Signal Processing at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems  leading the Intelligent Heart Technology Lab (I-HeaL). The labs research ultimately aims to help predict, prevent, and treat cardiovascular diseases. Motivated by health needs and inspired by engineering and control theory, the groups drives to improve human health.

Seraina Dual trained as a Mechanical Engineer at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (ETH Zurich) obtaining a Bachelor’s and Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering, Robotics and Control, and earned her PhD in the Product Development Group focusing on sensor systems for cardiovascular applications in the Zurich Heart Project. In collaboration with the team, she conducted cutting edge research in implantable sensor technologies in collaboration with the Voroes Group at ETH Zurich, the German Heart Center in Berlin, Germany, and  the St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Australia.

As a translational Fellow she then joined the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University, followed by an appointment as a PostDoc fellowship by the Swiss National Foundation in the Department of Radiology. During that time, she developed a novel design of soft robotic cardiac support device using rapid iterations in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Prof. Daniel Ennis, and in close collaboration with Prof. Alison Marsden and Mark Cutkosky. Her publications in international journals span across the fields of Cardiac Surgery, Medical Devices, Artificial Organs, Implantable Sensors, Signal processing, and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

At KTH, my research is funded by the innovation agency VINNOVA, the starting grant from the Swedish Research foundation, and the research pair innitiative by digital futures.

Please contact me if you are a highly motivated and independent student for projects in the described research areas.

The Intelligent Heart Technology Lab

Funders and Collaborating Institutions

Current students

2024 Wilhelm Ros, Master thesis, Aortic blood pressure analysis

2024 Karen Sævarsdóttir, Participatory design for inter-active wearables

2024 Georgios Adamopoulos, MRI-compatible mock loop

2024 Russell Hii Ching Wei, Aortic phantom support

Former lab members and students

2024 Lisa Svedberg, Master thesis, MRI-flow loop

2024 Vittorio Spadolini, Master thesis, Non-invasive cerebral blood flow measurement

2024 Yolande Ekpe, Bachelor thesis

2024 Aysima Özer, Bachelor thesis

2024 Xiaran Chen, Digital Futures Intern, LVAD support in small hearts

2023 Rebecca Bonator, Master KTH, Master thesis at EPFL

2023 Max Gulda, Bachelor, Real-time synchronized data acquisition for bluetooth devices

2023 Jespeer Sjöberg, Bachelor, Real-time synchronized data acquisition for bluetooth devices

2023 Chenyu Gu, Bachelor, Algorithms for IMU calibration

2023 Frida Hermansson, Visiting Master student from Linköping University, Researcher at Stanford University

2023 Priya Nair, Visiting PhD student from Stanford University, PhD student Stanford University

2023 Parnian Sattar, Bachelor, Machine learning for quality control in pulmonary hypertension diagnostics

2023 Frida Hermansson, Visiting Master student from Linköping University, Researcher at Stanford University

2023 Priya Nair, Visiting PhD student from Stanford University, PhD student Stanford University

2022 Laura Andersson, Bachelor researcher, Apotekarsocieteten

2022 Oliver Kreis, Visiting Master student from ETH Zurich, Engineer at Konpla

2022 Roxanne Rais, Visiting Master student from ETH Zurich, ReenaEE&C

2022 Jimale Mohamed, Bachelor, MRI-compatible control box

2022 Ana Candela Celdran, Master student KTH, Biosensors, CSW Therapeutics