Rate My Professor Seraina Dual

Seraina Dual is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Signal Processing in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, leading the Intelligent Heart Technology Lab (I-HeaL). Her research focuses on predicting, preventing, and treating cardiovascular diseases through engineering and control theory-inspired approaches. Trained as a mechanical engineer at ETH Zurich, she obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Robotics, and Control from ETH Zurich. She earned her PhD in the Product Development Group at ETH Zurich, specializing in sensor systems for cardiovascular applications within the Zurich Heart Project. Early career research involved implantable sensor technologies in collaboration with the Voros Group at ETH Zurich, the German Heart Center in Berlin, and St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Subsequently, she held a Translational Fellowship in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation in the Department of Radiology, where she developed novel soft robotic cardiac support devices using cardiac MRI in partnership with Professors Daniel Ennis, Alison Marsden, and Mark Cutkosky.

Dual’s academic interests encompass biomedical signal processing, implantable and wearable sensors for health monitoring, soft robotic cardiac support devices, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, physiologically-guided signal processing, interactive wearable technologies, and patient-specific test-rigs. She has supervised master’s and bachelor’s students on projects including aortic blood pressure analysis, participatory design for interactive wearables, MRI-compatible mock loops, and machine learning for pulmonary hypertension diagnostics. Notable awards include the IBM Research Prize for her doctoral thesis “Measurement Principles for a real-time Cardiac Volume Sensor” and a 2.25 million SEK starting grant from the Swedish Research Council for the CardioLoop project, alongside funding from VINNOVA and Digital Futures research pair initiatives. Key publications feature “Standardized comparison of selected physiological controllers for rotary blood pumps: in vitro study” (Artificial Organs, 2018), “Continuous heart volume monitoring by fully implantable soft strain sensor” (Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2020), “On the impact of vessel wall stiffness on quantitative flow dynamics in a synthetic model of the thoracic aorta” (Scientific Reports, 2021), and “The future of durable mechanical circulatory support: emerging technological innovations and considerations to enable evolution of the field” (Journal of Cardiac Failure, 2024). Her scholarship garners over 500 citations with an h-index of 12.