Sofia Monaci

Sofia Monaci first graduated in Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London in 2018, and she then went on to do a MRes and PhD under the supervision of Dr Martin Bishop (via the Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging Modalities). She is really enthusiastic and passionate about “’mending the heart” with engineering tools!

During her PhD, her research aimed at optimising ventricular tachycardia (VT) treatments by utilising electrograms recordings stored in implanted devices, that the majority of VT patients have in-situ. She first led an in-silico pace mapping to guide VT ablation planning non-invasively, and she then implemented two computational-artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to automate the localisation of focal and post-infarct VTs respectively, with a similar aim. Sofia graduated in 2022, and moved to work for Medtronic.