Alberto Corrias

Education

• Post-doctoral Fellow. Oxford University, UK. 2008 – 2010.
• PhD in Bioengineering. NUS, Singapore. 2004 – 2008.
• (B.Eng + M.Eng) in Biomedical Engineering. Politecnico di Milano (Italy). 1997 – 2002.

Professional experience

• Associate Professor. NUS, Singapore. 2019 – present
• Senior Lecturer. NUS, Singapore. 2016 – 2019
• Fellow, College of Alice and Peter Tan, NUS 2013 – 2019
• Lecturer, NUS. Singapore. 2011 – 2016
• Research Fellow. NUS, Singapore. 2010 – 2011

Research Interest

Pedagogical research

• Application of blended learning environments (flipped classroom) to engineering education
• Developing software for learning analytics
• Dramatization in education

Scientific research

My main research interest is the development and use of computational models of biological systems at different scales. I have been involved in modelling the function of the heart and the gastrointestinal system in health and disease. Focus areas include:

• Modelling protein kinetics of ion channels
• Biophysical models of the cellular electrical activity that underlies contraction of the heart and the stomach
• Cellular coupling and whole organ electrophysiology
• Development of efficient C++ code for solving large scale finite elements problems in computational biology