Dr. Alberto CORRIAS

Education

• Post-doctoral Fellow. Oxford University, UK. 2008 – 2010.
• PhD in Bioengineering. NUS, Singapore. 2004 – 2008.
• (B.Eng + M.Eng) in Biomedical Engineering. Politecnico di Milano (Italy). 1997 – 2002.

Professional experience

• Associate Professor. NUS, Singapore. 2019 – present
• Senior Lecturer. NUS, Singapore. 2016 – 2019
• Fellow, College of Alice and Peter Tan, NUS 2013 – 2019
• Lecturer, NUS. Singapore. 2011 – 2016
• Research Fellow. NUS, Singapore. 2010 – 2011

Research Interest

Pedagogical research

1. Application of blended learning environments (flipped classroom) to engineering education
2. Developing software for learning analytics
3. Dramatization in education

Scientific research

My main research interest is the development and use of computational models of biological systems at different scales. I have been involved in modelling the function of the heart and the gastrointestinal system in health and disease. Focus areas include:

1. Modelling protein kinetics of ion channels
2. Biophysical models of the cellular electrical activity that underlies contraction of the heart and the stomach
3. Cellular coupling and whole organ electrophysiology
4. Development of efficient C++ code for solving large scale finite elements problems in computational biology (see here)

Teaching

• BN1111: Biomedical Engineering Principles and Practice I
• BN2102: Bioengineering data analysis
• BN5205: Computational biomechanics
• BN2201: Quantitative physiology for bioengineers (2011-2022)
• BN2103: Bioengineering design workshop  (2014-2018)
• UTC1408: Technology and Human Progress (2014-2020)

Selected Awards & Honours

1. AY2017-2018: Engineering Educator Award Honour Roll
2. AY2016-2017: University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA)
3. AY2015-2016: University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA)
4. AY2015-2016: Engineering Educator Award
5. AY2014-2015: Faculty of Engineering Honours List (Teaching)
6. AY2013-2014: University Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA)
7. AY2013-2014: Faculty of Engineering Honours List (Teaching)
8. AY2012-2013: Faculty of Engineering Honours List (Teaching)
9. 2004 and 2007: NUS President Graduate Fellowship

Selected Journal Publications

1. [Pedagogical] Corrias, A. Catering to Engineering students: A flipped classroom case study. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2015, 5(3), 150-163. Read
2. Corrias, A., Buist, M.L. A quantitative cellular description of gastric slow wave activity. American Journal of Physiology 2008, Apr;294(4):G898-995. Pubmed
3. Cooper J, Corrias A., Gavaghan D, Noble D, Considerations for the use of cellular electrophysiology models within cardiac tissue simulations. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 2011 107(1):74-80 Pubmed
4. Corrias, A., Giles W, Rodriguez B. Ionic mechanisms of electrophysiological properties and repolarization abnormalities in rabbit Purkinje fibers. American Journal of Physiology 2011, May;300(5): H1806-13. Pubmed
5. Corrias, A., Pathmanathan, P., Gavaghan, D., Buist M.L. Modelling tissue electrophysiology with multiple cell types: applications of the extended bidomain framework. Integrative Biology 2012. 4(2):192-201. Pubmed
6. Corrias, A., Buist, M.L. A Quantitative Model of Gastric Smooth Muscle Cellular Activation. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 2007, Sep;35(9):1595-607. Pubmed
7. Pueyo, E., Corrias, A., Virag, L., Jost, N., Szel, T., Varro, A., Szentandrassy, N., Nanasi, P.P., Burrage, K. and Rodriguez, B. A Multiscale Investigation of Repolarization Variability and Its Role in Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis. Biophysical Journal 2011, 101(12):2892:2905. Pubmed
8. [Pedagogical] Corrias, A. Lightening up Mathematics-intensive classes: A case study using a flipped classroom approach. CDTL Brief, 17 (1), pp. 10-13. Read

Book Chapter

• Corrias, A, Du, P. and Buist ML. Modelling tissue electrophysiology in the GI tract: past, present and future. In New Advances in Gastrointestinal Motility Research. 2013. Springer Netherlands (pp 167-195) Link

My work was also presented at several international conferences.