Vijay Govindarajan, PhD

Biography

Dr. Vijay Govindarajan obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, University of Kerala, India and his PhD in Biomedical engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, respectively. His research interests are in the application of fluid and solid mechanical principles towards understanding and solving clinically relevant cardiovascular problems working closely with cardiologists, surgeons, and other biomedical engineers. Dr. Govindarajan has developed computational and experimental models using computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, fluid-structure interaction, transport phenomenon and biochemical kinetics, in-vitro pulse duplicator systems and microfluidics geared toward gaining clinical insights into heart valve dynamics, vascular mechanics, and clotting dynamics.