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Engineering and Technology
New Zealand
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
81
Citations
26165
World Ranking
490
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 1994 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Peter Hunter is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research is situated primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biophysics, and Surgery.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics such as pancreatic function and diabetes, metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, cell image analysis techniques, gene regulatory network analysis, molecular sensors and ion detection, functional brain connectivity studies, and neuropeptides in animal physiology.

Peter Hunter has contributed multiple recent papers to the academic community, including:

  • The SPARC DRC: Building a Resource for the Autonomic Nervous System Community (2021, Frontiers in Physiology)
  • Adaptive constrained constructive optimisation for complex vascularisation processes (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • How to Link Genomics to Physiology Through Epigenomics (2020, Epigenomics)
  • The Cell Physiome: What Do We Need in a Computational Physiology Framework for Predicting Single-Cell Biology? (2022, Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science)
  • 3D single cell scale anatomical map of sex-dependent variability of the rat intrinsic cardiac nervous system (2021, iScience)

Collaborations have involved frequent co-authors such as David Nickerson, Richard Christie, Soroush Safaei, Maci Heal, and Zixi Cheng.

Peter Hunter's work appears regularly in several scientific venues, with notable publication counts in the following:

  • Physiome
  • Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Frontiers in Physiology

Throughout their career, Peter Hunter has received fellowships from multiple esteemed organizations including the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1994, the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2001, and the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2006.

Best Publications

  • The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium for representation and exchange of biochemical network models.

    M. Hucka;A. Finney;H. M. Sauro;H. Bolouri;H. Bolouri

  • Laminar structure of the heart: ventricular myocyte arrangement and connective tissue architecture in the dog

    I. J. LeGrice;B. H. Smaill;L. Z. Chai;S. G. Edgar

  • Mathematical model of geometry and fibrous structure of the heart.

    P. M. F. Nielsen;I. J. Le Grice;B. H. Smaill;P. J. Hunter

  • Modelling the mechanical properties of cardiac muscle

    P.J. Hunter;A.D. McCulloch;H.E.D.J. ter Keurs

  • Computational Mechanics of the Heart

    M. P. Nash;P. J. Hunter

  • CT-based geometry analysis and finite element models of the human and ovine bronchial tree

    Merryn H Tawhai;Peter J Hunter;Juerg Tschirren;Joseph M Reinhardt

  • Modeling total heart function.

    Peter J. Hunter;and Andrew J. Pullan;Bruce H. Smaill

  • An anatomically based model of transient coronary blood flow in the heart

    N. P. Smith;A. J. Pullan;P. J. Hunter

  • Big Data, Big Knowledge: Big Data for Personalized Healthcare

    Marco Viceconti;Peter Hunter;Rod Hose

  • Laminar structure of the heart: a mathematical model

    I. J. Legrice;P. J. Hunter;B. H. Smaill

  • Computational mechanics of the heart : From tissue structure to ventricular function

    M. P. Nash;P. J. Hunter

  • Computational physiology and the Physiome Project.

    Edmund J. Crampin;Edmund J. Crampin;Matthew Halstead;Peter Hunter;Poul Nielsen

  • Theory of Heart: Biomechanics, Biophysics, and Nonlinear Dynamics of Cardiac Function

    Leon Glass;Peter Hunter;Andrew McCulloch

  • Systems medicine and integrated care to combat chronic noncommunicable diseases

    Jean Bousquet;Josep M. Anto;Peter J. Sterk;Ian M. Adcock

  • The CellML Model Repository

    Catherine M. Lloyd;James R. Lawson;Peter J. Hunter;Poul F. Nielsen

  • The Cardiac Atlas Project—an imaging database for computational modeling and statistical atlases of the heart

    Carissa G. Fonseca;Michael Backhaus;David A. Bluemke;Randall D. Britten

  • Cardiac Microstructure Implications for Electrical Propagation and Defibrillation in the Heart

    Darren A. Hooks;Karl A. Tomlinson;Scott G. Marsden;Ian J. LeGrice

  • Generation of an anatomically based three-dimensional model of the conducting airways.

    M. Howatson Tawhai;A. J. Pullan;P. J. Hunter

  • A teleoperated microsurgical robot and associated virtual environment for eye surgery

    Ian W. Hunter;Tilemachos D. Doukoglou;Serge R. Lafontaine;Paul G. Charette

  • Anatomically based geometric modelling of the musculo-skeletal system and other organs

    J. W. Fernandez;P. Mithraratne;S. F. Thrupp;M. H. Tawhai

Frequent Co-Authors

Poul M. F. Nielsen
Poul M. F. Nielsen University of Auckland
Martyn P. Nash
Martyn P. Nash University of Auckland
Nicolas P. Smith
Nicolas P. Smith University of Auckland
Merryn H. Tawhai
Merryn H. Tawhai University of Auckland
Andrew J. Pullan
Andrew J. Pullan University of Auckland
Alejandro F. Frangi
Alejandro F. Frangi University of Manchester
Edmund J. Crampin
Edmund J. Crampin University of Melbourne
Andrew D. McCulloch
Andrew D. McCulloch University of California, San Diego
Marco Viceconti
Marco Viceconti University of Bologna
Jesper Tegnér
Jesper Tegnér King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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