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Shahrokh Rahmani

Postdoctoral researcher (previous member) · Imperial College London

Dr. Shahrokh Rahmani completed his B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering-Biomechanics from Iran University of Science and Technology. Following this, he pursued his Postdoctoral Research at Technical University of Denmark where he focused on biomechanical modelling of biological soft tissue deformation. Dr. Rahmani then joined University College London as a Research Fellow in the mechanical engineering department, where he worked on dynamic whole organ modelling utilizing hierarchical Phase Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) technique. He also developed image processing pipelines to handle the large datasets generated by this technique, and computational models of biological systems. From 2018, Dr. Rahmani has been working in the field of cardiovascular biomechanics, focusing on numerical modelling, experimental protocols, and image analysis pipelines to image large tissue volumes at high resolution.

Dr. Rahmani became a member of CEMRG in 2023, collaborating with researchers at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. His work involved MRI image-based modelling of the mechanical and structural function of the cardiovascular system under different pathologies, including alcoholic cardiomyopathy.

In 2025 he left to work for UCL.

Research themes

Papers

First author 1

  1. Shahrokh Rahmani, Jim Pouliopoulos, Angela Lee, Rosie Kate Barrows, Marina Strocchi, Cristobal Rodero, Abdul Qayyum, Caroline H. Roney, Christoph Augustin, Gernot Plank, Andrew Jabbour, …, Steven Niederer

    Cardiac Sensitivities to Biomechanical Changes in a Chronic Alcoholic Heart: A Case Study Using 3-Dimensional Electro-Mechanical Heart Modelling

    Computing in cardiology, 2024

Middle author 2

  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. José Alonso Solís-Lemus, Rosie K. Barrows, Cristobal Rodero, Marina Strocchi, Natalie Montarello, Nishant Lahoti, Cesare Corrado, Abdul Qayyum, Shahrokh Rahmani, Caroline Roney, Gernot Plank, Christoph Augustin, …, Steven A. Niederer

    Assessing the importance of sex and disease-specific anatomy in electrophysiology and mechanical simulations with a newly developed public virtual cohort of four-chamber heart models

    PLoS Computational Biology, 2026