Maximilian Balmus

Postdoctoral researcher · Imperial College London · joined 2024

Dr Max Balmus graduated from King’s College London with a BEng and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, where he specialised in developing new fluid-solid interaction methods for simulating cardiac valve mechanics using multiple overlapping grids.

He joined CEMRG in 2024, and since then has been working on building digital twins for pulmonary arterial hypertension patients using implantable monitoring device data, as part of the CVD-Net and MiMeC projects. This work aims to improve patient stratification as well as to enable personalised medicine.

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In the news

6 June 20263D-printed hearts at the Great Exhibition Road Festival

Papers

First author 1

Maximilian Balmus, Sheng‐Ya Wang, Edward W. G. Ashton, Rosie K. Barrows, Molly Monks, Yuzhang Ge, Arthur Lefebvre, Steven A. Niederer
In Silico Clinical Trials in Drug Development: Virtual Patients, Applications, and Regulatory Convergence
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2026

Middle author 5

Radka Jersakova, Sam F. Greenbury, Ed Chalstrey, Edwin Brown, Marjan Famili, …, Max Balmus, …, Steve Niederer, …
AutoEmulate: A PyTorch tool for end-to-end emulation workflows
The Journal of Open Source Software, 2026
Fay Frost, Maximilian Balmus, Levan Bokeria, Joe Longbottom, Camila Rangel-Smith, Harry Saxton, …, Steve Niederer, …
Rapid personalisation of cardiovascular models using invasively measured right ventricular pressure
Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2026
Steven A Niederer, Maximilian Balmus, Christopher Burr, Timothy J A Chico, Richard H Clayton, Wenjia Bai, …, Sheng-Ya Wang, …
Digital twins for cardiopulmonary medicine: the case for pulmonary arterial hypertension
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2026
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
Martin A. Stoffel, Bryan M. Li, Kalle Westerling, Sophie Arana, Max Balmus, Eric Daub, Steve Niederer
AutoEmulate: A Python package for semi-automated emulation
The Journal of Open Source Software, 2025