
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Position: Technical Staff
T +43 1 40400 61430
christian.grasl@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Artificial Organs; Biocompatible Materials; Medical 3D-Printing
Research group(s)
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research
Head: Johann Wojta
Research Area: The Ludwig-Boltzmann-Cluster for Cardiovascular Research focuses on interdisciplinary research of therapies for cardiovascular diseases.
Members: - Cardiovascular Dynamics and Artificial Organs
Head: Francesco Moscato
Research Area: The research group deals with investigation, development and simulation of cardiovascular devices and hemodynamics for diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
Members: - Additive Manufacturing for Medical Research
Head: Francesco Moscato
Research Area: The research group investigates physical and digital 3D modeling and engineering for improving medical implants and devices, surgical procedures and training.
Members:
Research interests
Development of small diameter vascular grafts:
Electrospinning of vascular prostheses with the aim to mimic the structure and the anisotropic behavior of the native origin. Improvement of the control of the elctrospinning process in order to produce scaffolds with more predictable patterns.
Additive Manufacturing:
Manufacturing of models from the submicrometer to the millimeter range.
Microfluidics, Imaging Phantoms and scaffolds for Tissue Engineering purposes out of soft and hard materials.
Selected publications
- Zagiczek, S.N. et al. (2024) ‘Two-photon lithography for customized microstructured surfaces and their influence on wettability and bacterial load’, 3D Printing in Medicine, 10(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41205-024-00211-4.
- Grasl, C. et al. (2021) ‘Electrospinning of small diameter vascular grafts with preferential fiber directions and comparison of their mechanical behavior with native rat aortas’, Materials Science and Engineering: C, 124, p. 112085. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2021.112085.
- Franco-Martínez, F. et al. (2022) ‘Hybrid design and prototyping of metamaterials and metasurfaces’, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 17(4), pp. 1031–1046. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17452759.2022.2101009.
- Grasl, C. et al. (2013) ‘Electrodynamic control of the nanofiber alignment during electrospinning’, Applied Physics Letters, 102(5). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4790632.
- Grasl, C. et al., 2009. Electrospun polyurethane vascular grafts:In vitromechanical behavior and endothelial adhesion molecule expression. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 9999A, p.NA-NA. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbm.a.32584.