Science Communication

Public Engagement and Trans-disciplinary Scientific Education for Responsible Research and Innovation

We are committed to raising awareness about how the digital transformation influences health care by engaging the public into new possibilities that emerge from innovative R&D.

We design scicom formats to explore the interplay of science, tech, and art to stimulate critical dialog about, and implementation of new technology within society. The aim is to foster the engagement with, and ownership of future technology.

This short movie shows the dynamic reconstruction of the blood flow of a healthy human heart. New imaging methods for flow visualizations as shown are integrated into software assistants to help doctors determine how the blood flow changes due to heart diseases without using a catheter. They help calculate how the blood pressure and shear forces on the wall of the blood vessels change for patients with heart valve problems. Additional patient-specific numerical flow simulations could help estimate the benefits provided by a new heart valve before an intervention.