Charles Peskin, Ph.D.
- Director, NYU Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics
Peskin's field of research is the application of mathematics and computing to medicine and biology, especially in the areas of heart physiology, neural science, and biomolecular motors. The immersed
boundary method, introduced by Peskin for the study of flow patterns around heart valves, has become a generally useful computational method for fluid-structure interaction. This methodology is the foundation of a computer model of the heart that is currently under development at NYU. The model includes the fluid mechanics of the blood in the cardiac chambers, the fiber architecture and tissue
mechanics of the muscular heart walls and flexible heart valve leaflets, and also the electrophysiology that coordinates and controls the heartbeat.
Address:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012, USA
Phone: 212-998-3126
Email:
peskin@cims.nyu.edu
