Anna Maria Lo Presti obtained her master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in March 2023 at the University of Palermo, Italy, with a thesis entitled: ‘Hemodynamic effects of vascular pathologies: 3D modeling from diagnostic imaging and CFD simulations’.
In May 2023 she obtained a postgraduate scholarship lasting six months at the Department of Engineering of the University of Palermo, entitled: ‘Development of patient-specific CFD methodologies for the study of hemodynamic effects in vascular pathologies’.
She is currently a PhD student at the University of Palermo, Italy, with a project in collaboration with the Ri.MED Foundation in the area of ​​numerical simulation of complex physiological problems.

Anna Maria’s project aims to develop a platform for predicting the formation and growth of thrombus in various pathological and post-procedural conditions, such as atrial fibrillation and the presence of prosthetic valves of various types. The study exploits a new numerical method based on the Lagrangian approach of SPH computational hydrodynamics.