Overview
My research involves modeling oxygen transport and blood flow regulation in the microcirculation, which is the part of the circulation consisting of the smaller blood vessels that supply oxygen to the majority of surrounding tissue. I work with Dr. Timothy Secomb in the departments of physiology and applied mathematics. We use mathematical and computational models to try to answer questions about how active blood flow regulation affects tissue oxygenation. In addition, we investigate to what extent that flow regulation is able to overcome inherent heterogeneities present in the structure of blood vessel networks.
