Daniel Hurtado

• Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, School of Engineering UC

• Computational Methods in Biomedical Engineering
• Multiscale modeling of cardiac and pulmonary biomechanics
• Applied Mathematics
• Scientific computing

Dr. Hurtado is a full Professor at the School of Engineering and Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC). He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology thanks to a Fullbright scholarship, after which he joined UC to create the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Computational Biophysics and to co-found the Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering. His research is focused on the creation and development of new mathematical models and computational methods to understand the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, with the aim of creating computational tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the context of precision medicine. Dr. Hurtado is author of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals, and has been director and principal investigator of numerous research projects funded by the Chilean Government (Fondecyt, Fondef, CORFO, PIA, Millennium Initiative), and by international funding such as NIH-Firca and the Ellinger Foundation. In 2018 he was selected as one of the most influential young scientists under 40 in the world by the World Economic Forum. That same year he was also elected as a member of the World Council of Biomechanics becoming the first Chilean to participate in this international society. Since 2019 Dr. Hurtado is an elected member of the "Frontier Science" program of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Hurtado is an active science communicator and has been keynote speaker in massive events such as the Future Congress and Nerd Nites, among others.