Doctoral Thesis Project
The effect of cellular inhomogeneity on macroscopic cardiac dynamics


Doctoral Thesis Committee

• Luther, Stefan, Prof. Dr. - Biomedical Physics (MPI-ds)


• Bodenschatz, Eberhard, Prof. Dr. - Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Nanobiocomplexity (MPI-ds, Uni-Phy)


• Parlitz, Ulrich, Prof. Dr. - Complex Dynamical Systems (Uni-Phy)

Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.bmp.ds.mpg.de



University Education

• 05/2009-present Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization / University of Göttingen / GGNB program Physics of Biological and Complex Systems


• 10/2003-03/2009 University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Diplom, thesis: "Control of Spiral Wave Activity in Excitable Media - Alternatives to Conventional Defibrillation in a Generic Model"

Publications

• Luther S, Fenton F, Kornreich B, Squires A, Bittihn P, Hornung D, Zabel M, Flanders J, Gladuli A, Campoy L, Cherry E, Luther G, Hasenfuss G, Krinsky V, Pumir A, Gilmour R, Bodenschatz E (2011) Low-energy control of electrical turbulence in the heart. Nature 475(7355):235.


• Petitprez S, Zmoos AF, Ogrodnik J, Balse E, Raad N, El-Haou S, Albesa M, Bittihn P, Luther S, Lehnart SE, Hatem SN, Coulombe A, Abriel H. SAP97 and Dystrophin Macromolecular Complexes Determine Two Pools of Cardiac Sodium Channels Nav1.5 in Cardiomyocytes. Circ Res. 2011 Feb 4;108(3):294-304.


• Behrend A, Bittihn P, Luther S. Predicting Unpinning Success Rates for a Pinned Spiral in an Excitable Medium. Computing in Cardiology 2010;37: 345.


• Behrend A, Bittihn P, Luther S. Understanding and predicting the response of pinned vortices to periodic electric far-field stimuli. Biomedizinische Technik. 2010;55(S1): 339.


• Bittihn P, Squires A, Luther G, Bodenschatz E, Krinsky V, Parlitz U, Luther S. Phase-resolved analysis of the susceptibility of pinned spiral waves to far-field pacing in a two-dimensional model of excitable media. Philos Transact A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2010 May 13;368(1918):2221-36.


• Bittihn P, Luther G, Bodenschatz E, Krinsky V, Parlitz U, Luther S (2008) Far field pacing supersedes anti-tachycardia pacing in a generic model of excitable media. New J Phys 10:103012

Fellowships, Awards, Memberships

• 05/2009-present stipend of the Max Planck Society dedicated to Max Planck PhD students


• Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft


• Member of SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics