Meet the Team

Seraina Dual

Assistant Professor, Docent

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering & Health Systems, KTH

Dr. Seraina Dual is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Biomedical Signal Processing at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems leading the Intelligent Heart Technology Lab (I-HeaL). The labs research ultimately aims to help predict, prevent, and treat cardiovascular diseases. Motivated by health needs and inspired by engineering and control theory, the groups drives to improve human health. Seraina Dual trained as a Mechanical Engineer at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (ETH Zurich) obtaining a Bachelor’s and Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering, Robotics and Control, and earned her PhD in the Product Development Group focusing on sensor systems for cardiovascular applications in the Zurich Heart Project. In collaboration with the team, she conducted cutting edge research in implantable sensor technologies in collaboration with the Voroes Group at ETH Zurich, the German Heart Center in Berlin, Germany, and the St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Australia. As a translational Fellow she then joined the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University, followed by an appointment as a PostDoc fellowship by the Swiss National Foundation in the Department of Radiology. During that time, she developed a novel design of soft robotic cardiac support device using rapid iterations in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Prof. Daniel Ennis, and in close collaboration with Prof. Alison Marsden and Mark Cutkosky. Her publications in international journals span across the fields of Cardiac Surgery, Medical Devices, Artificial Organs, Implantable Sensors, Signal processing, and Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).