Dr Ankush Aggarwal
- Senior Lecturer (Infrastructure & Environment)
telephone:
01413304857
email:
Ankush.Aggarwal@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Room 621, Rankine Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LT
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Engineering and a member of the Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre (GCEC) at the University of Glasgow. I work in the area of computational biomechanics with application to cardiovascular healthcare. I started my college education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and studied Aerospace Engineering. From there, I moved to the University of California, Los Angeles and obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics. Afterwards, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cardiovascular Simulation (CCS), part of ICES, at the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining University of Glasgow, I was a National Research Network Fellow at the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZCCE), Swansea University for three years.
Research interests
More information can be found on Computational Biomechanics Research Group website
Our research focusses on cardiovascular biomechanics using numerical and computational tools. The ongoing projects can be catergorized into four groups as shown below.
Publications
Selected publications
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807, Williams, Ross, Rosnel, Claire
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0038-4321, Renon, Silvia, Hussain, Jude M., Schmidt, André F., Huang, Shiting, Mcginty, Sean
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2428-2669 and McBride, Andrew
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-3777
(2025)
pyMechT: A Python package for mechanics of soft tissues.
Journal of Open Source Software, 10(106),
7490.
(doi: 10.21105/joss.07490)
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807, Coccarelli, Alberto and McGinty, Sean
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2428-2669
(2025)
Heterogeneity and multi-scale modeling in vascular biomechanics.
In: Liao, J. and Wong, J.Y. (eds.)
Integration and Bridging of Multiscale Bioengineering Designs and Tissue Biomechanics.
Springer Nature: Switzerland.
ISBN 9783031817427
Rosnel, Claire, Sivera, Raphael, Cervi, Elena, Danton, Mark, Schievano, Silvia, Capelli, Claudio and Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807
(2024)
Are aortic biomechanical properties early markers of dilatation in patients with Marfan syndrome? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 23(6),
pp. 2043-2061.
(doi: 10.1007/s10237-024-01881-z)
(PMID:39073692)
(PMCID:PMC11554766)
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807, Mortensen, Peter, Hao, Jilei, Kaczmarczyk, Łukasz
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8468-5435, Cheung, Albert T., Al Ghofaily, Lourdes, Gorman, Robert C., Desai, Nimesh D., Bavaria, Joseph E. and Pouch, Alison M.
(2023)
Strain estimation in aortic roots from 4D echocardiographic images using medial modeling and deformable registration.
Medical Image Analysis, 87,
102804.
(doi: 10.1016/j.media.2023.102804)
(PMID:37060701)
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807, Jensen, Bjørn Sand
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8074-228X, Pant, Sanjay and Lee, Chung-Hao
(2023)
Strain energy density as a Gaussian process and its utilization in stochastic finite element analysis: application to planar soft tissues.
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 404,
115812.
(doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2022.115812)
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807, Hudson, Luke T., Laurence, Devin W., Lee, Chung-Hao and Pant, Sanjay
(2023)
A Bayesian constitutive model selection framework for biaxial mechanical testing of planar soft tissues: application to porcine aortic valves.
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 138,
105657.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.105657)
Coccarelli, Alberto, Carson, Jason M., Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807 and Pant, Sanjay
(2021)
A framework for incorporating 3D hyperelastic vascular wall models in 1D blood flow simulations.
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 20(4),
pp. 1231-1249.
(doi: 10.1007/s10237-021-01437-5)
(PMID:33683514)
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807, Lombardi, Damiano and Pant, Sanjay
(2021)
An information-theoretic framework for optimal design: analysis of protocols for estimating soft tissue parameters in biaxial experiments.
Axioms, 10(2),
79.
(doi: 10.3390/axioms10020079)
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807 and Pant, Sanjay
(2020)
Beyond Newton: a new root-finding fixed-point iteration for nonlinear equations.
Algorithms, 13(4),
78.
(doi: 10.3390/a13040078)
Mei, Yue, Hurtado, Daniel E., Pant, Sanjay and Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807
(2018)
On improving the numerical convergence of highly nonlinear elasticity problems.
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 337,
pp. 110-127.
(doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2018.03.033)
Aggarwal, Ankush ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-8807
(2017)
An improved parameter estimation and comparison for soft tissue constitutive models containing an exponential function.
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 16(4),
pp. 1309-1327.
(doi: 10.1007/s10237-017-0889-3)
(PMID:28251368)
(PMCID:PMC5511618)
All publications
Grants
Principal Investigator (extramural grants)
Principal Investigator (small extramural grants)
Co-Investigator
- EPSRC International centre to centre research collaborations 2024-2027
EPSRC Centre for Future PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) Planning - KESS II 2017 - 2020
Analysis of mechanisms involved in shear stress induced microparticle generation and microparticle mediated effects - Model2Decision ESPRC Network 2017 - 2018
Do self-expandable artificial valves offer an advantage over balloon-expandable valves in patients with calcified aortic roots?
Supervision
PhD Students
- Claire Rosnel
Aortic growth and remodeling in Marfan patients - Marcell Illyes
Computational Methods for Augmenting the Echocardiographic Assessment of Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Aortic Valve Stenosis - Marcia McSwegan
Modelling in vitro host-parasite infection - Orla Conlon
How does drug crystal shape and size influence drug transfer and retention in arterial tissue? - Shiting Huang
Computational modeling of changes in right ventricular function following lung resection - Silvia Renon
Improving computational models of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
I am looking for motivated students to work with me towards their PhD in computational cardiovascular mechanics. Details are available here.
If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to email me.
- Huang, Shiting
Computational modelling of changes in the right ventricular function following lung resection - Renon, Silvia
A novel hybrid DCB + DES strategy for the treatment of coronary artery disease - Rosnel, Claire
Longitudinal Biomechanical Modelling of Aortic Walls in Paediatric Patients with Marfan Syndrome
Bachelors/Masters/Placement Project Students
- Shu Yi Tang, Masters Project Student, 2025
Previous members
- Postdoctoral Researchers:
- Dr. Ross Williams, 2022
- Dr. Peter Mortensen, 2021-2023
- Dr. Heleen Fehervary, 2019
- Dr. Pradeep Keshavanarayana, 2019
- Dr. Yue Mei, 2017-18
- Jude Mohamed Osman Hussain, PhD Student, 2020-24
- André Fensterseifer Schmidt, PhD Student, 2019-24
- Alistair McQueen, PhD Student, 2018-22
- Undergraduate/masters project students:
- Shu Yi Tang, 2024-25
- Thammatouch Mutututharn, 2024-25
- Martyna Agnieszka Mróz, 2024-25
- Paul McCarvel, 2024-25
- Matty Mills, 2024-25
- Muye Yao, 2023-24
- Ruaridh McInnes, 2023-24
- Lisa Chestnutt, 2023-24
- Jenna Groundwater, 2023-24
- Yevhenii Kovalov, 2023-24
- Simran Yadav, 2023-24
- Hongzhi Zhang, 2023
- Nick Skinner, 2022-23
- Caitlin Owens, 2022-23
- Shiting Huang, 2021-22
- Yining Guo, 2021-22
- Indulekha Pallippurath, 2021-22
- Sabari Chandra Sekhar, 2020-21
- Zhibo Chen, 2020-21
- Riya Dhruw, 2020-21
- Aurélien Goupilleau, 2020-21
- Kerong Ren, 2020-21
- Yalin Wang, 2020-21
- Ioannis Vrettakos, 2020-21
- Preslav Aleksandrov, 2020-21
- Zongchang Li, 2019-20
- Tsz San Bernard Lai, 2019-20
- Alexander Steele, 2019
- Kevin Philip James, 2019
- Bashir Balogun, 2017-18
- Zainab Abdullah, 2017-18
- Joseph Pereira, 2017-18
- Ahmed Al Kindi, 2016-17
- James Locke, 2016-17
- Summer research interns:
- Alejandra Paja Garcia, 2023
- Nuffield Research Placements:
- Emma Reilly, 2022
- Emma Laird, 2022
- Lisa Tran, 2021
- Nowar AlDubaee, 2020
Additional information
I am looking for motivated PhD students. Details are available here.
If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to email me to discuss further.