Torsten Schenkel

Biography

After completing his studies of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Torsten worked with the European Space Agency developing optical measurement methods for microgravity convection flows. After finishing his PhD in 2002, Torsten worked towards the "Habilitation" (professorial degree, higher doctorate, venia legendi) developing in-silico models for the blood flow in a pumping patient-specific human heart. He was awarded the venia legendi for Fluid Mechanics by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2010. After a short interval as acting head of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics at the KIT, he left Germany to help establish the South Korean overseas branch campus and graduate school in Chemical and Bioengineering for the Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, serving as Campus Vice President. He was also teaching as a guest professor for physics at the Dongseo University, Busan. After two years as expat, working in a mostly administrative role, he decided to return to research and teaching and took up the role of Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, where he is teaching Fluid- and Thermodynamics and Numerical Methods.

Research Interest

Modelling of spatial distribution of hematocrit in the carotid artery based on patient specific data. Cooperation with Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (Dr Sud Ramachandran, PI), Brunel University (Drs Atherton and Koenig, Dept of Mech Eng. and Clinical Engineering) and MERI (Ian Halliday, Sergey Lischuk). - 'Characterisation of atherosclerosis risk using fluid dynamics analysis' - Exploratory project with an international team of researchers.