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Ludovica Cicci

Postdoctoral researcher · Imperial College London · joined 2022

Ludovica Cicci obtained her BSc in Mathematics and her MSc in Applied Mathematics at Sapienza Università di Roma. In 2021 she completed a PhD degree at Politecnico di Milano, where she was involved in an ERC project for the construction of cardiac digital twins, focusing on the development of reduced order models to speed up the computation of mechanics simulations.

After one more year at Politecnico di Milano as post-doc in mathematical models and methods for personalized and precision medicine, she joined CEMRG as research associate in November 2022. Making use of virtual simulations on patient-specific geometries, she is currently investigating the impact of electrodes location and other electrophysiology parameters on electrocardiograms.

In the news

  1. Fetal heart digital twins at the World Congress in Fetal Medicine
  2. 3D-printed hearts at the Great Exhibition Road Festival
  3. Cardiac digital twins on show at AI UK

Papers

Middle author 8

  1. Cristobal Rodero, Lara Curran, Christopher W. Lanyon, Paolo Inglese, Abdul Qayyum, Rosie K. Barrows, Jose A. Solis-Lemus, Shahrokh Rahmani, Marina Strocchi, Angela W.C. Lee, Tiffany M.G. Baptiste, Ludovica Cicci, Edward Burford, Elias Karabelas, …, Steven A. Niederer

    Computational models show that functional remodeling, not anatomy, reshapes physiological determinants of cardiac performance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 2026

  2. Shambhavi Malik, Ludovica Cicci, Abdul Qayyum, Rahul Ghelani, Ji-jian Chow, Jagdeep Singh Mohal, Zachary I. Whinnett, …, Steven A. Niederer

    Body surface potential driven personalisation of electrophysiological digital twins in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    PLoS Computational Biology, 2026

  3. Bei Zhou, Maximilian Balmus, Cesare Corrado, Ludovica Cicci, Shuang Qian, Steven A. Niederer

    TorchCor: High-performance cardiac electrophysiology simulations with the finite element method on GPUs

    SoftwareX, 2026

  4. Sian Chivers, Nicolò Pini, Shayan Chowdhury, Ludovica Cicci, Trisha Vigneswaran, Vita Zidere, …, Stephen Niederer, …

    Clinical Role of the Noninvasive Abdominal Fetal ECG in the Detection and Monitoring of Fetal Tachycardia

    Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 2025

  5. Alexandre Lewalle, Tiffany M. G. Baptiste, Rosie K. Barrows, Ludovica Cicci, Cesare Corrado, Angela W. C. Lee, Cristobal Rodero, José Alonso Solís-Lemus, Marina Strocchi, Steven A. Niederer

    Developing cardiac biomechanical models beyond the clinic: modeling stressors of daily life

    Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2025

  6. Shuang Qian, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Laura Dal Toso, Yu Deng, Marina Strocchi, Ludovica Cicci, Richard E. Jones, Hassan Zaidi, …, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer

    Developing cardiac digital twin populations powered by machine learning provides electrophysiological insights in conduction and repolarization

    Nature Cardiovascular Research, 2025

  7. Marina Strocchi, Rosie K. Barrows, Cristobal Rodero, José Alonso Solís-Lemus, Shuang Qian, Ludovica Cicci, Abdul Qayyum, Devran Ugurlu, Christoph M. Augustin, Matthias A. F. Gsell, Edward J. Vigmond, Gernot Plank, Steven A. Niederer

    Multi-scale Whole-Heart Electromechanics Modeling to Link Cellular, Tissue and Systemic Properties to Cardiac Biomarkers in the Diabetic Male and Female Heart

    Lecture notes in computer science, 2025

  8. Shambhavi Malik, Ludovica Cicci, Abdul Qayyum, Rahul Ghelani, Ji-Jian Chow, Alistair Young, Gernot Plank, …, Steven Niederer

    Semi Automated Pipeline to Create Anatomical Twins and Perform Electrophysiology Simulations for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Computing in cardiology, 2024