My name is Åshild Telle, and I’m a part of Dr. Patrick Boyle’s CardSS lab. In my everyday work, I use computational models to investigate the cardiac function – in health and disease.  I work on two projects in parallel – one on organ-scale, one on microscale. In the first, we consider the left atrium using clinical data from UW medicine in combination with our models. Specifically, we are investigate the impact of atrial fibrosis on the atrial function; focusing on electrophysiological, mechanical, and haemodynamic implications. In my second project, we are investigating mechanical cardiac function on a microscale through a model allowing for explicit representation of single cells and their surroundings. On a general level, I have always been curious about how things work and invested in scientific explanation. Through my research, I aim to expand our deeper understanding of underlying mechanisms – hoping that my findings eventually might lead to advanced healthcare.