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Austria
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
56
Citations
10819
World Ranking
2850
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Gernot Plank is affiliated with the Medical University of Graz in Austria and conducts research primarily in the field of medicine, with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work encompasses various subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, biomedical engineering, surgery, and neurology.

Their research topics cover multiple aspects of cardiac function and treatment. These topics include:

  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Cardiovascular function and risk factors
  • Cardiac arrhythmias and treatments
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • ECG monitoring and analysis
  • Atrial fibrillation management and outcomes
  • Elasticity and material modeling

Their recent publications include:

  • The openCARP simulation environment for cardiac electrophysiology, 2021, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • A Framework for the generation of digital twins of cardiac electrophysiology from clinical 12-leads ECGs, 2021, Medical Image Analysis
  • A publicly available virtual cohort of four-chamber heart meshes for cardiac electro-mechanics simulations, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Simulating ventricular systolic motion in a four-chamber heart model with spatially varying robin boundary conditions to model the effect of the pericardium, 2020, Journal of Biomechanics
  • Creation and application of virtual patient cohorts of heart models, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Gernot Plank has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Heart Rhythm
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Computing in cardiology
  • EP Europace
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Karli Gillette
  • Steven Niederer
  • Christoph M. Augustin
  • Edward J. Vigmond
  • Martin J. Bishop

Best Publications

  • A Novel Rule-Based Algorithm for Assigning Myocardial Fiber Orientation to Computational Heart Models

    J. D. Bayer;R. C. Blake;G. Plank;N. A. Trayanova

  • Solvers for the cardiac bidomain equations.

    E.J. Vigmond;R. Weber dos Santos;A.J. Prassl;M. Deo

  • Computational tools for modeling electrical activity in cardiac tissue

    Edward J Vigmond;Matt Hughes;G Plank;L.Joshua Leon

  • The Swarm Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility (SCARF) and Swarm data products

    Nils Olsen;Eigil Friis-Christensen;Rune Floberghagen;Patrick Alken;Patrick Alken

  • Verification of cardiac tissue electrophysiology simulators using an N-version benchmark

    Steven Alexander Niederer;Eric Kerfoot;Alan P. Benson;Miguel O. Bernabeu

  • The openCARP simulation environment for cardiac electrophysiology.

    Gernot Plank;Axel Loewe;Aurel Neic;Christoph M. Augustin

  • Development of an anatomically detailed MRI-derived rabbit ventricular model and assessment of its impact on simulations of electrophysiological function

    Martin John Bishop;Gernot Plank;Rebecca A.B. Burton;Jurgen E. Schneider

  • Anatomically accurate high resolution modeling of human whole heart electromechanics

    Christoph M. Augustin;Aurel Neic;Manfred Liebmann;Anton J. Prassl

  • Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioner for the Cardiac Bidomain Model

    G. Plank;M. Liebmann;R.W. dos Santos;E.J. Vigmond

  • From mitochondrial ion channels to arrhythmias in the heart: computational techniques to bridge the spatio-temporal scales

    Gernot Plank;Lufang Zhou;Joseph L Greenstein;Sonia Cortassa

  • A Framework for the generation of digital twins of cardiac electrophysiology from clinical 12-leads ECGs.

    Karli Gillette;Matthias A.F. Gsell;Anton J. Prassl;Elias Karabelas;Elias Karabelas

  • Efficient computation of electrograms and ECGs in human whole heart simulations using a reaction-eikonal model

    Aurel Neic;Fernando Otaviano Campos;Anton J. Prassl;Steven A. Niederer

  • Parallel multigrid preconditioner for the cardiac bidomain model

    R.W. dos Santos;G. Plank;S. Bauer;E.J. Vigmond

  • Automatically Generated, Anatomically Accurate Meshes for Cardiac Electrophysiology Problems

    A.J. Prassl;F. Kickinger;H. Ahammer;V. Grau

  • Mechanistic Inquiry into the Role of Tissue Remodeling in Fibrotic Lesions in Human Atrial Fibrillation

    Kathleen S. McDowell;Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Robert Blake;Joshua Blauer

  • Image-based models of cardiac structure in health and disease

    Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Hermenegild Arevalo;Anton J. Prassl;Junjie Chen

  • Three-dimensional models of individual cardiac histoanatomy: tools and challenges.

    Rebecca A.B. Burton;Gernot Plank;Jürgen E. Schneider;Vicente Grau

  • Influence of myocardial fiber/sheet orientations on left ventricular mechanical contraction:

    Thomas Eriksson;Thomas Eriksson;A.J. Prassl;Gernot Plank;Gerhard Holzapfel;Gerhard Holzapfel

  • Verification of cardiac mechanics software: benchmark problems and solutions for testing active and passive material behaviour

    Sander Land;Viatcheslav Gurev;Sander Arens;Christoph M. Augustin

  • Towards predictive modelling of the electrophysiology of the heart

    Edward Vigmond;Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Viatcheslav Gurev;Hermenegild Arevalo

  • Modeling atrial fiber orientation in patient-specific geometries: a semi-automatic rule-based approach

    Martin W. Krueger;Viktor Schmidt;Catalina Tobón;Frank M. Weber

  • Image-based models of cardiac structure with applications in arrhythmia and defibrillation studies.

    Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Lukas J. Rantner;Brock Tice;Patrick Boyle

  • Assessment of three numerical solution strategies for gravity field recovery from GOCE satellite gravity gradiometry implemented on a parallel platform

    R. Pail;G. Plank

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas P. Smith
Nicolas P. Smith University of Auckland
Reza Razavi
Reza Razavi King's College London
Thomas Eriksson
Thomas Eriksson Chalmers University of Technology
Karl Kunisch
Karl Kunisch University of Graz
Gerhard A. Holzapfel
Gerhard A. Holzapfel Graz University of Technology
Roland Pail
Roland Pail Technical University of Munich
Sanjay K. Prasad
Sanjay K. Prasad National Institutes of Health
Thomas Pock
Thomas Pock Graz University of Technology
Sonia Cortassa
Sonia Cortassa National Institutes of Health
Brian O'Rourke
Brian O'Rourke Johns Hopkins University

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