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Peter Hunter

Peter Hunter, 52, is a NZ Royal Society James Cook Fellow and Chair of
the Physiome Commission of the International Union of Physiological
Sciences. He founded the Biomedical Engineering Group at Auckland
University which, in close collaboration with the Auckland Physiology
Department, uses a combination of mathematical modelling techniques
and experimental measurements to reveal the relationship between the
electrical, mechanical and biochemical properties of cardiac muscle cells
and the performance of the intact heart. A similar approach is also being
used by the Auckland group to analyse gas transport, soft tissue mechan-
ics and blood flow in the lungs with the aim of producing an anatomically
detailed, biophysically based coupled heart–lung model for use in drug dis-
covery and the clinical diagnosis and treatment of cardiopulmonary
disease.

Paul J. Kolston
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Paul Kolston studied at Canterbury
University (NZ) where he graduated in 1985 with first class honours in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He obtained his PhD there in 1989,
although he spent one year of his PhD studies at the Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands. After a one-year post-doctoral position at