Johane Bracamonte earned his bachelor's (2007) and master's (2010) degrees in mechanical engineering from Central University of Venezuela and his PhD in mechanical and nuclear engineering in 2022 from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He is now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) as well as an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellow. He is developing multiscale models of cardiac electromechanics, circulation hemodynamics, and cellular signaling networks of myocardial hypertrophy and fibrosis to predict patient-specific ventricular growth and remodeling. In two and a half years at UAB, he has co-authored five abstracts for presentation at both engineering and medical conferences, authored a book chapter and a high-impact paper, and single-handedly established multiple new collaborations for his research group with cardiologists and surgeons. He mentored high school students through the VCU Dean's Early Research program, leading him to believe that academic work can only be truly impactful through community involvement and outreach. As an international trainee from a country where independent thinking is silenced, Bracamonte makes his lab a welcoming space for students from underserved groups. He envisions his group's multiscale-multiphysics models being clinically applied to patient-specific predictions of treatment and therapy outcomes and for the design of noninvasive diagnostic tests and tools. He firmly believes that computer-assisted analysis must be incorporated at every stage of the engineering curriculum, and he plans to incorporate Jupyter Notebooks as a supportive material in all of his lectures.

Research Interests

Multiscale Modeling for Translational Research