Caenen Annette

Annette Caenen (Member, IEEE) was born in Genk, Belgium, in September 1988. She received the M.S. degree in civil engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 2011, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. She was a Visiting Scholar with Physics for Medicine Paris, Paris, France, and Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. She currently works as an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow with the IBiTech-bioMMeda Lab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, the Cardiovascular Imaging and Dynamics Laboratory, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thorax Center, Erasmus Medical Center (MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research interests are shear wave elastography, biomechanics, finite-element modeling, and noninvasive material characterization, with a focus on cardiac applications.